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d and e drives missing and won't work???????

Feb 14, 2004 3:20AM PST

help my dvd rom drive and my dvdrw drive is not showing up in my computer, in the device manager they both have conflicts, and they both say drivers loaded but can not find hardware, help!!!!!!

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No code for these devices??
Feb 14, 2004 3:37AM PST
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Re:No code for these devices??
Feb 14, 2004 8:39AM PST

sorry, yes the code is ( 41 ), it sucessfully loaded the drivers, but cannot find the hareware device.
ive unpluged both drives and restarted then shut down and reconnected both drives and restarted but it still doesn't show any drives other than the floppy.
im starting to think its the ide cable and i have another one but i heard the original in a dell is different, they run on cable select.
can i use a regular ide cable and just set it to master and slave instead???

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Re:d and e drives missing and won't work???????
Feb 14, 2004 4:03AM PST
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Re:Re:d and e drives missing and won't work???????
Feb 14, 2004 10:02AM PST

thank you very much R proffitt, your link had the info i needed and ive got it working again, thanks!!!!!