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Had xp lost drives

by rjshears May 16, 2005 6:40AM PDT

I put XP Pro on my computer and everything was all right for a little while (about one month) then all of a sudden I lost all my drives except the hard drive I used anti-virus programs but still no luck.I went to microsoft and they told me to try somethings but that didn't work either and I got tried of waiting for microsoft so I formated my hard drive and reinstalled everything and every thing was fine for about a month agin. If I boot from a floppy and install cd-rom program I can use the cd-rom drives for one only time and then it goes back to where I have no drives agin.I was wondering if this was a bug in my XP program or not.

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Few questions and suggestions
by AussiePete May 16, 2005 7:52PM PDT

1/ what did Microsoft tell you to do?
2/ why are you booting to a floppy to install a program from a CDROM - why not just boot to the CDROM (do this by setting boot sequence in the bios - press DEL at boot to enter the bios)
4/ What is this boot disk and where did you get it from?
5/ What is this program - seems like this maybe causing the problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please let me know the above.

In the mean time do the following:-

6/ Look in "device manager" and see if you can see any yellow or red symbols (which are warnings and errors)- In particular look if your devices are working in legacy mode.
7/Look in "accessories/systems tools/sys info" - see if everything is OK, in particular "components/problem devices"
8/ Update your motherboard, bios and CDROM drivers and firmware.

Please let me know the answer to the above questions and results of my suggestions.
Peter

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few questions and suggestions
by rjshears May 18, 2005 9:51AM PDT

Microsoft told me to restore to a point where everything works, which I did and still no drives. The reson I booted from a floppy was because it was the only thing that even halfway worked. I shut my machine down ,inserted the flopy installed the cd-rom program and I got to use my cd for one time only and then no more drives including my floppy. Every thing on the hard drive that I have installed works just can't use any of my cds or floppys. The floppy only works to boot up the computer after one time nothing. I will go into and see if I can do what you suggested I am new to computers and getting upset with this one.

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The usual is...
by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator May 18, 2005 11:33AM PDT
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