CDROM and Burner Magically Disapeared On Me

[jacktesterson]

I have a P 733 downstairs that has a LG 8-4-32 Burner and a Samsung 48x cdrom. Its a friends PC. His drives disapeared from windows....right out of the blue....drivers are gone and everything...Initially i thought something must be wrong with his IDE controller, but there both picked up in the Bios.....And I cant seem to get Windows 98 to pick them up...any suggestions?

 

[Mavrick007]

Believe it or not, but that has happened to me before as well. My ide is picked up and working fine, supposedly, but I have my doubts. I am using Win98SE and things will not initialize sometimes upon posting, but if I play around with the ide cable, they usually get picked back up with a reboot. I don't know if this is mainly to do with the ide cable, but I have had power supply problems and that might be part of the problem right there.

I would make sure to turn on the channels as *Auto* and then check or replace the psu, and maybe try different ide cables on the drives. Good luck.

 

[bjc112]

Does he use Nero? If so i have had that same problem some time ago, Tell him to unistall it, and reinstall..

His drives should re appear...

 

[jacktesterson]

No, he uses Easy CD Creator and Clone CD...Nero isnt on the system I beleive, but i'll check.

So it possibly may be a cable problem? Somebody suggested to me that it could be a cable problem

 

[bjc112]

well thats the thing, it wasnt cabling, it was software..So even if he checks the cable and it doens't work out, tell him to reinstall the hardware..

Good Luck.

 

[jaggrey]

There's actually a KnowledgeBase article on this....my friend had this problem. It has to do mainly with Easy CD Creator. There are a couple of keys in the registry you have to delete. Go to support.microsoft.com and type in Easy CD Creator and it should come up. I can't remember if the article included Windows 98 b/c she was running Windows XP, but give that a try. This is the exact same thing that happened to her.

 

[jaggrey]

I think this is the article. Doesn't mention Windows 98 but give it a shot nonetheless.

 

[bacillus]

suggest you try this:
Click Start, then Run... , and type regedit
Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\IOS
if you should see a value named "NoIDE". Delete it, close regedit and reboot!

 

[jaggrey]

I remember that. Good idea!