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DVD RAM Drive Disappears From Windows Vista
HP Pavillion dv9500 notebook running Vista Home Premium. I installed a 2nd SATA hard drive in bay 2 og the notebook and now my DVD RAM drive has disappeared from Explorer, Drive Management, and Device Manager. I swapped out the DVD drive with a new one to rule out hardware failure, but the problem persists. Does anyone have a clue as to why this has happened? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. I want my DVD drive back! Thank you. -- technomann |
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DVD RAM Drive Disappears From Windows Vista
Did you check that the BIOS is seeing all attached drives? - if this was a
PATA system, I'd have said that you hadn't set the new HD as slave.... What happens if you detach the new HD? - does your DVD drive re-appear?? -- Noel Paton (MVP 2002-2006) (CrashFixPC) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.co.uk "technomann" wrote in message ... HP Pavillion dv9500 notebook running Vista Home Premium. I installed a 2nd SATA hard drive in bay 2 og the notebook and now my DVD RAM drive has disappeared from Explorer, Drive Management, and Device Manager. I swapped out the DVD drive with a new one to rule out hardware failure, but the problem persists. Does anyone have a clue as to why this has happened? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. I want my DVD drive back! Thank you. -- technomann |
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DVD RAM Drive Disappears From Windows Vista
The BIOS is not that comprehensive. The only place that the DVD drive appears in the BIOS is in the Boot Order list. I had to set a jumper on the new 2nd SATA hard drive in order to get it to appear in Explorer or Device Manager. Otherwise the 2nd hard drive would not appear anywhere. If I detach the 2nd HD and reboot the DVD drive does NOT re-appear. The only drive that appears then is the original hard drive. Is this a problem with the 2 SATA hard drives configuration? A problem with IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers? Or what??? -- technomann |
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DVD RAM Drive Disappears From Windows Vista
I just discovered that Windows will no longer recognize any of my USB flash drives either. They will show up in Device Manager with a yellow exclamation mark. When I try to update the drivers for them through Device Manager I get the error message that Windows encountered a problem with the installation of the drivers. What the heck is going on here? -- technomann |
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DVD RAM Drive Disappears From Windows Vista
Try one of the following
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929461 http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q316529 -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "technomann" wrote in message ... HP Pavillion dv9500 notebook running Vista Home Premium. I installed a 2nd SATA hard drive in bay 2 og the notebook and now my DVD RAM drive has disappeared from Explorer, Drive Management, and Device Manager. I swapped out the DVD drive with a new one to rule out hardware failure, but the problem persists. Does anyone have a clue as to why this has happened? Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. I want my DVD drive back! Thank you. -- technomann |