lost drives

[brian512000]

xp has lost my cd drives. all was well writing a cd, when i put the next disc in the drives were not shown. I am using a raid card, control panel tells me the drives are installed but cannot be found. I uninstalled them ,rebooted , and although the bios reads them , xp reinstalled the devices,they cannot be found.......where are they ? does anyone know?

 

[mistajohnson]

Have you recently installed new H/W ? Sounds to me like it could be a power supply issue. When the drives disappear, do they still have power?

Got the latest xp drivers for your raid card?

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Tried to post this yesterday

Hope it works today.

Try this: Go to Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management, Disk Management. If you notice that the letter that was assigned to the cd rom has disappeared do this to reassign it. Right-click the cd rom that disappeared. (click in the white area just below the word "Volume") and select "change drive letter and paths." Reassign it.

 

[MdSalih]

if bios picks it up means something messed up inside XP...

it wouldn't be raid drivers... could be a hard ware conflict... although i doubt it...

try looking for some updated drivers... if your current drivers aren't specificied for XP...

it could always be a hardware malfunction :-/ - as a last resort u may want to go back to the shop and get them to check it out for yah m8...

MdSalih

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