Lost all CD/DVD drives Need help

klinseklinse
edited September 2006 in Hardware
Hello All,

Gnome said you could help.

Both my DVD drives are missing.

Have tried to update the drivers. Windows looks for them, nothing found.

Have Pioneer DVR-108 and DVR-109 drives and they show up in device manager with exclamation points on them.

Have updated my Via chipset drivers.

The drives show up in Safe mode with no exclamation points.

Problem occured when uninstalling Roxio Media Creator 9. Program would not launch, so I uninstalled it through Add/Remove programs. When I tried to install it again, the drives were missing.

Any and all help would be appreciated. I really would like to get this fixed without reinstalling the operating system.

Running Windows XP Media Center edition

Comments

  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    Loose/bad IDE Cable. Check the connection to the drives and the motherboard (with the PC off :)).
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    shwaip wrote:
    Loose/bad IDE Cable. Check the connection to the drives and the motherboard (with the PC off :)).


    Would that work since the drives work properly in safe mode? I mean its a possibility tho
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2006
    See if this info helps. :)
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    I can't believe I didn't find this thread sooner.

    This problem is a classic upperfilters/lowerfilters problem. Follow the instructions Prof provided, it'll work.
  • bannock500bannock500 wiarton willy country (ontario) New
    edited September 2006
    try to unplug both drives and reboot. then plug one drive and reboot. then plug last drive in and reboot. your PC might see it then. hope this helps.

    Bannock
  • klinseklinse
    edited September 2006
    profdlp wrote:
    See if this info helps. :)

    Prof
    You're absolutely the best! Solution worked fine and worked on the first try.

    Thanks a million.

    klinse
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2006
    Glad you got it going. :cheers:
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