winxp not recognising drives

wobbles

wobbles

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ARGHHHHHHHH winxp has lost my D(2nd HD) & E(CDRom) drives yet again!! Dont know why it does it but every so often it seems to wipe them off !!! Any ideas on this before I reformat??? :) thanx
 
wobbles

wobbles

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Good Morning Pokopiko! :)
They are connected on Motherboard...............& as far as I am aware I have no roxio shit installed (lol) Thanx.
 
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mikespike

mikespike

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Hi pokopiko / wobbles

I had this problem!! I had installed the Via 4 in 1 drivers & Xp likes to use its own.. I just un-installed them and let Xp have its own way...lol

I hope this helps wobbles....And I think pokopiko wanted to know exactly where the hard drive and Cd rom are connected ie: to main IDE connectors or through a raid port...If you are using a AMD chip and A via motherboard i would suggest un installing the above mentioned drivers... this will probably work....

Mike
 
wobbles

wobbles

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Ahhhhh....thx mikespite!! ide is the way I believe (not very tech myself but thats what I was told!! hahaha)
 
Shadey

Shadey

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hmmm - screwed up ide cable maybe ?
or overclocked system buses can have the same effect on some drives ?

may need a bit more info go on. . . .
 
wobbles

wobbles

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Well.......the last suggestion I got was that my motherboard might be too old for winxp.....its an A-trend ATC-6120........had it a while!! :)
 
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