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Windows Does not Detect DVD RW Drive

Started by Jaffe Joffer , May 31 2005 05:36 PM

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Jaffe Joffer

Posted 31 May 2005 - 05:36 PM

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Howdy,

Windows XP is not detecting my DVD drive. I notice that during boot-up, my BIOS detects the drive on the Secondary IDE Master. But windows refuses. Anybody got ideas?

Ed

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starjax

Posted 05 June 2005 - 01:06 PM

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what dvd drive do you have?

go to control panes, administrator tools, drive manager. see if the dvd drive has a drive letter assignted to it. I may not or have one conflicting with another drive letter.