Windows doesnt see CD Dive

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SUDDENLY , Windows does not recognise the CD drive ,pinned as master
on end of cable ,plugged into the secondary IDE port.
Ive checked the following

1 Drive properly pinned as master
2 Installed on the end of cable
3 Replaced with a new drive
4 Switched drives.
5 The drive are recognised in the BIOS as master and slave .
6 Installed new cable .
7 I tried booting computr with bothdrives removed ,deleting the driver
....Only one shows Then connecting drives again and rebooting .Windows
only sees the drive in the slave position.

It appears that the mother board does not see any drive in the master
position on the secondary IDE port .I built the computer about a year
ago and has worked fine till about 2 weeks ago .The mother board is a
ASUS P4P800 ,Pentium 3.0 CPU with windows WINXP PRO
Do I have a bad MB /
Am I missing something ....TIA...Flipper
 
OleDawg said:
SUDDENLY , Windows does not recognise the CD drive ,pinned as master
on end of cable ,plugged into the secondary IDE port.
Ive checked the following

1 Drive properly pinned as master
2 Installed on the end of cable
3 Replaced with a new drive
4 Switched drives.
5 The drive are recognised in the BIOS as master and slave .
6 Installed new cable .
7 I tried booting computr with bothdrives removed ,deleting the driver
...Only one shows Then connecting drives again and rebooting .Windows
only sees the drive in the slave position.

It appears that the mother board does not see any drive in the master
position on the secondary IDE port .I built the computer about a year
ago and has worked fine till about 2 weeks ago .The mother board is a
ASUS P4P800 ,Pentium 3.0 CPU with windows WINXP PRO
Do I have a bad MB /
Am I missing something ....TIA...Flipper
Click to expand...

Have you recently installed any Roxio software?
 
Have you installed *any* cd / ripping / system like software at all prior to
the issue?
S/W you install after the issue is very likely irrelevant, it is the last
Change prior to the issue appearing that may have caused the problem.

I have seen issues like this with s/w that installs gearsec / gearaspi
drivers (EG Alcohol 120% and others). Try searching your registry for both
those strings and if you find either then backtrack through s/w installed
recently and de-install to see if it fixes things.

I found once a particuar version of Partition Magic (IE it can be software
that seems quite unrelated) caused CD fowl ups.

- Tim
 
OleDawg said:
SUDDENLY , Windows does not recognise the CD drive ,pinned as master
on end of cable ,plugged into the secondary IDE port.
Ive checked the following

1 Drive properly pinned as master
2 Installed on the end of cable
3 Replaced with a new drive
4 Switched drives.
5 The drive are recognised in the BIOS as master and slave .
6 Installed new cable .
7 I tried booting computr with bothdrives removed ,deleting the driver
...Only one shows Then connecting drives again and rebooting .Windows
only sees the drive in the slave position.

It appears that the mother board does not see any drive in the master
position on the secondary IDE port .I built the computer about a year
ago and has worked fine till about 2 weeks ago .The mother board is a
ASUS P4P800 ,Pentium 3.0 CPU with windows WINXP PRO
Click to expand...

When you say Windows does not recognize the drive, where are you
looking? Does it show up in Device Manager? Or are you just looking
in Explorer or My Computer?

If you have Microsoft's Tweak UI Powertoy, look under Drives in its My
Computer section. Make sure all the drive letters are checked there.
 
When you say Windows does not recognize the drive, where are you
looking? Does it show up in Device Manager? Or are you just looking
in Explorer or My Computer?

If you have Microsoft's Tweak UI Powertoy, look under Drives in its My
Computer section. Make sure all the drive letters are checked there.
Click to expand...

The drive doesnt show in any of those locations .Its as if the drive
isnt installed .Tweakui not installed . TIA
 
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