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by car1626

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I am running Windows XP Professional, 512 MB of Ram, a 60 GB Harddrive, AMD Athlon 1.3 MHZ, with a CDRW and a DVD Rom Drive. Both CDRW and DVD Drives are on the secondary controller with the CDRW as the master and DVD as the slave. My system has been running flawless the pass several months. Yesterday, 16 Nov 2002, I was getting ready to burn a CD, when I noticed that my CDRW and DVD Rom drives were no longer available when I double Click my computer. The last time everything work properly was on Friday evening, 15 Nov 2002. Both drives worked fine. When I check the Device Manager for the drives, it displays a yellow dot with an ! beside the drives in question. Does anyone know what this means? I have power to the drives, both of the lights come on during POST, They both show up on Post and in the BIOS. When I boot from a Bootable Floppy it also shows both drives as Drive G and H.

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

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by thechas

Usually, when you loose both CD drives, something has happened to the IDE driver.

Microsoft has on occasion, sent out the wrong IDE driver via Windows Update.

2 suggestions:

1. Remove the IDE controllers from device manager.
Reboot, and allow Windows to re-install the drivers.

2. Identify the required drivers, and download the latest version from the motherboard, or chipset mfg.

Chas

by loudmouth

If the drives are not listed, perform a full scan with your antivirus software. Viruses can sometimes prevent windows from recognizing the drive.

by jmj28

Usually when device manager gives you the yellow ! it means that there is a problem with the driver or the controller that the drive is connected to. I would first try to reinstall the drivers for the two faulty drives but your best bet would be todo that AND the IDE controller. Did you have a bad shutdown or any kind of crash recently?

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