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Help..lost all CD drives
If you could get the drives to be recognized properly with another disk then it's software and not hardware setup. MT Boot into safe mode and delete the secondary controller(s), and all the listed CD drives. Reboot and let windows re-plug 'n play everything. MT -- Spammers, send your email directly to

Lost Cd drive help?
Neither drive is listed nor mentioned anywhere on my computer. Everything else works perfectly. When I boot up, I get the "Found New Hardware" messages in reference to CD-ROM drives, so when I click on "Have Disk" I get another message that reads something like "Cannot Find Drive(s)". My computer does not "see" the

Lost both CD's. Need advice.
Keith T. Williams pug_u...@hotmail.com alt certification a-plus iansmail@bigfoot. com (Ian) wrote in news:d9776ad5.0112070113.f617e7f@posting.google.com: I was adding some software to my dual boot pc running xp on C: and win 2k on D: I was adding to win 2k when system hung...on re-boot both cd drives e & f had gone.

Lost CD drive access
If that doesn't work, try reinstalling the appropriate CD Rom driver from the internet or original installation disk. Hope this helps. -----Original Message----- After upgrading a system from 98 to ME, I lost the CD drive. I can't figure out any way to access the darned thing. Any ideas? Thanks, Amanda .

Lost CD drive in Win2k Professional
Bob I bire...@yahoo.com microsoft public win2000 general Replied to your first posting. jlm wrote: I had this problem with a xp machine and there was a solution which I lost, but now i'm running win2000 and today I can not see my cd drive listed has anyone ever had this problem? if so is there a fix? thanks.

lost cd drive
Thomas Overgaard tho...@post2.tele.dk alt os linux slackware bobby wrote: Jeg ha ikke proevet skriver i nu, men CD spiler virker ikke uden options. Could you be a bit more specific, "doesn't work" is probably the worst place to start helping you. -- Thomas O. This area is designed to become quite warm during normal

lost the cd drives...
Check the XP CD notes at http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm. Down the page a bit, you'll find a note about "My CD drives have vanished...". Download the .reg file there, and run it on your system. This will usually clean up the bogus setting (often left over from old recording software) that causes the drives to

Lost CD drives
Even try unplugging the ribbon cables, reboot, then shut down, plug in the ribbon cable for one CD drive at a time, in Device manager see if you are getting any Shut down, connect the other drive (maybe pull the first cable out first?) and try booting with the second CD connected to see if that shows up.

Lost CD Drive
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:01:00 -0400 As Androids Dreamed Of Electric Sheep and then "Paul Lady" <p...@comcast.net> wrote : My old reliable W98 system is giving me "no access" to the CD. The bios recognizes the CD drive. I changed the CD drive unit and the system properties sees a different drive, but still no access.

Lost CD drive access
I tried to install a new Maxtor hard drive (IDE drive) in my system (Pentium II running Win98) and now have lost my CD-Rom drives! I had problems installing the new drive, so I went back to my original hard drive, and when I booted up, I got a blue-screen saying something about a device using 32-bit mode drivers

Lost CD drive
Milt Ginsburg miltginsb...@email.com 24hoursupport helpdesk Nigel Everis <nigel@everis. freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:8vdja3$lpv$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk... Windows 95 comes up with no CD ROM Drive? Look for a virus. Trend.com, run Housecall.

Lost CD drive
Alvin A Brown alv...@swbell.net microsoft public windowsxp hardware Hello See link below http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314060 Alvin DJOG wrote: My E:\ Drive (CDR) and F:\ Drive (CDRW) does not show up on MY COMPUTER any more. I upgraded from Win 2K to Win XP. The drives worked fine for a

Help! Added a Hard drive...but lost CD drive !!!
joust in jest joust_in_j...@yahoo.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Windows XP supports CD drives natively. There is no need for other drivers.. You say that Windows indicates a drive failure -- very likely that is exactly what has happened; the drive has failed. steve "Mark" <mcgin...@email.com>

Lost CD drives in w98
Howard Brazee bra...@webaccess.net comp os ms-windows nt setup misc I booted to WNT, put my W2K CD in my drive and it converted my WNT drive to W2K. I booted to W2K and my CD drive is gone. It is a generic IDE DvD player. How do I go about getting my DvD back?

Lost CD Drive Please Help
It seems they have lost their D Drive. It is not under "My Computer" and I am unable to find it anywhere on the computer. When you insert a cd, you can hear it run, but it will not load. I can not see that the letter has been changed. When I start the computer it say that "primary slave" and "secondary slave" are

LOST CD drive ?!?!?!?!?
To fix a drive-letter for your Jaz: Under the 'Reserved drive letters' section, set both the 'Start drive letter' and the 'End drive letter' to the letter that you want to use for the Zip. You can do the same for the CD drive. In addition, sometime in the near future I may need to get a zip drive as well.

cd-drives lost with "ide-scsi" option
This way you won't have any problems. when i'd look at the k3b cd copy setup my lite-on cd did not appear at all. after employing the jennings' site solutions the error message stopped appearing, the lite-on appeared as a selectable source drive, but it would not read. i also found that it would not read anywhere

Lost my 2 CD drives using w2k, code 31
That said, have you tried actually disconnecting the cd drives, boot up, then shut down and hook drives back up. Maybe a boot with the drives disconnected will get rid of those entries in the registry and allow you to re-install them. You could also try finding those entries in the registry and deleting them.

Lost CD Drives....
n...@nope.na (Ahummmm) wrote: kevi...@home.com (Kevin Everts) wrote in <Xzlp5.12546$QW4.164...@news1.rdc1.mi.home.com>: I am using Win2k Prof. and I lost use of my CD drives a couple weeks ago. When I go to the device manager, it has "?" marks next to them. Its says the correct drivers are not installed.

lost CD drive icon
Dan C youmustbejok...@invalid.org alt os linux mandrake On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 01:14:54 +0000, BabaG wrote: <snip> any ideas on how to get mandrake to recognize this drive when it's in a scsi emulation mode? You need to edit your /etc/fstab file to change the "name" of the drive in question.