DVD ROM device not seen at boot time

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Cecil Rudenberg

I have a Windows 2000 system with a DVD/CD reader and a CD
Writer both on the secondary IDE channel. The reader is a
BTC BDV-108A and the writer is a Verbatim 522452AL. When I
boot up, Windows sees the writer ok, but does not see the
reader. If I then run the Add/Remove Hardware Wizard, it
does the hardware search with no messages displayed during
the search, and shows both drives in the list of devices
displayed after the search. I can then quit the wizard and
both drives are functional. This process has to be
repeated every time I switch on the system. I have tried
removing & re-installing the drive with no effect. Does
naybody have any suggestions as to how to get Windows to
see the drive at boot time. Thanks.
 
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I have a Windows 2000 system with a DVD/CD reader and a CD
Writer both on the secondary IDE channel. The reader is a
BTC BDV-108A and the writer is a Verbatim 522452AL. When I
boot up, Windows sees the writer ok, but does not see the
reader. If I then run the Add/Remove Hardware Wizard, it
does the hardware search with no messages displayed during
the search, and shows both drives in the list of devices
displayed after the search. I can then quit the wizard and
both drives are functional. This process has to be
repeated every time I switch on the system. I have tried
removing & re-installing the drive with no effect. Does
naybody have any suggestions as to how to get Windows to
see the drive at boot time. Thanks.
.
Hi,
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Do you have the drives set on driveselect rather then
master/slave? if you do then make 1 master 1 slave and
then see what happens. Plus you could try different order
to see if it works that way.
Luck
 
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