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mistergixer
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PostPosted: 09:28 - 08 Oct 2009    Post subject: Lost CD Drives..... Reply with quote
Took my PC apart the other day to do a bit of maintenance (removed an old PCI ATA RAID card & drives, cleaned it out, smartened up the wiring a bit) - since then, i've lost both my CD/DVD drives.
The drives are recognised at POST and can be seen in the BIOS, but are not visible in the OS - it's Vista Premium 32bit.
Any ideas?
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PostPosted: 09:30 - 08 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Device manager/detect new hardware bring up nothing?

have you plugged the IDE cable into a different slot by accident?
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PostPosted: 09:35 - 08 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
right click My Computer --> Manage --> look for Disc Management and select it and check your drive letter allocation etc.
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PostPosted: 10:19 - 08 Oct 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fixxored.

My MB only has 1 IDE channel on it (my OS HD is SATA), so i knew it wasn't a hardware problem - plus, they were being picked up by the BIOS.
I stumbled across the solution by changing the view in device manager from 'by type' to 'by connection' - there i could see a problem with the IDE controller - it was disabled (?!!?). As soon as i enabled it, my 2 CD drives popped up.
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