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January 17th, 2005, 03:01 AM
#1
I cant see my drives!
Ok, earlier i posted that my hard drive was failing and it was, i took it into the shop and had my computer worked on. well today i got it back and now i cant physically "see" my D or G drives which are my cd drive and my cd burner. but, when i restart my computer they reappear and i can use them. why are they randomly appearing and disappearing?? this is really bothering me. thanx bye.
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January 17th, 2005, 03:40 AM
#2
Hi Tex,
Let me get this straight.........
When you boot you have a D and a G drive, but then they dissappear and you have to re-boot to get them back?
What is your "E" drive and "F" drive?
As they are just CD drives I would be inclined to delete them, check that you have master/slave or cable select correctly configured with the jumpers then re-boot and let Windows re-discover them.
Cheers
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January 17th, 2005, 04:12 AM
#3
C,F,E are my harddrives they work fine but, D and G are my drives with removeable storeage ie. cd drive/cd burner and those 2 randomly disappear and reappear. im very confused as to why. the guy who worked on my computer updated my bios and did a few other big changes. im not quite sure of everything he did. im running a dell P4 with 384 megs of RAM and im in the process of updating again to SP2 and getting fully patched.
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January 17th, 2005, 10:05 AM
#4
Can't say I have come across this before. My first move would be to get the latest driver software for the CDs. Then remove them in Windows Device Manager, re-boot and let Windows rediscover them.
If that doesn't work I would take the box back to the guy you paid to fix it.
After all he knows what he did.............we can only guess?
Good luck
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January 17th, 2005, 07:43 PM
#5
thanx i apprciate all your help. I also have one other question. He did a bios update on my computer. i was on AO2 and now it is at A06 and im having some trouble with my plug and play like with my webcam its USB and i plug it in and it wont "see" it. im thinking when he did the bios update it messed up my plug and play.
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January 17th, 2005, 08:03 PM
#6
Hi Tex,
I obviously don't know if the BIOS update went smoothly, but I have encountered similar problems, and they can usually be resolved by updating the drivers and possibly deleting/re-installing the hardware.
With USB devices take a look in the setup and see if there are any options for USB, you may have to enable them.
Cheers
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January 17th, 2005, 08:34 PM
#7
ok thanx again for the help.
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January 17th, 2005, 09:41 PM
#8
Did you open the machine and make sure the cables are all plugged in first?
When death sleeps it dreams of you...
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January 17th, 2005, 10:43 PM
#9
muerto- yes i did, i suspected that at first.... maybe he reversed the jumpers on the cd drives i dont know...
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January 18th, 2005, 12:34 AM
#10
Tex,
If the jumpers were wrong I would expect problems on boot up rather than the intermittent "dissapearance" that you are getting mind you, I am not sure what would happen if you had one as "master" and the other as "cable select"
The problem does sound like a software one to me.
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