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ok, neither of my drives will work, any suggestions?

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bonk102

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both my dvd and dvd-rw will not work, because "the driver is either corrupted or missing"

only thing is, i'm running xp pro, so how the hell can the drivers be corrupted? i thought that they did'nt need any special drivers when running on xp.

btw, both drives were factory installed and in the box when i got it (from the november dell deal)
 
Originally posted by: rudeguy
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
Remove both of them in Device Manager, reboot and let Windows reinstall them. Report back.
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or simply uninstalll the drivers and reinstall them
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tried that, i'm going to remove them both in Device manager and let windows reinstall

every time i reinstall it cannot find the drivers, aarrr
 
Remove both in the device manager in safe mode shut the system down the pull both out of the system then start up with them out then shut down and put one in at a time and win xp should take care of it.
 
If drivers don't reinstall, you may have a bad IDE bus.... If things don't go well, look into getting a PCI IDE controller to swap in and see if that solves it....but definitely go the driver route first.

-Scar
 
Originally posted by: her209
Reinstall.
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every time i reinstall the drives i get the same error, that the driver is missing or corrupted

i cannot get either drive to work and dell support is useless
 
Sometimes the factory screws up (gasp):Q

Open the case, and see if the DVD Writer is set to master, and the DVD reader is set to slave. Plus, when using a writer, it is best that the Writer and the reader are on seperate busses. As in DVDR set to slave on IDE1 off the hard drive, and trhe DVDRW is set to master on IDE2, and then anything else set to slave off that channel.

See if both are set to slave, or both are set to master. Sometimes they are set to Cable Select, and this can cause issues.
 
is this XP or XP sp1?

and have you used google in any searches?

also, is the IDE channel enabled in windows\bios?
 
I don't have much experience with XP, but it sounds like something I've seen a few times in other OS installs. You may have a corrupted ASPI layer.
 
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