Why W2K does this?!?!

[Nemesis77]

I got a brand-new DVD+ReWritable for my workstation, so I decided to pop that baby on my workstation right away. Installation went smoothly (as smoothly as it can go with a Compaq), W2K detected the drive and everything went smoothly. I then proceeded to install the software (PowerDVD, burn-software etc.). But during the installation something went wrong. Well, that happens now and then, so I deleted the software that I had installed (using "Add/remove programs"), rebooted the machine with the intention of re-installing the software...

... As I got back to Windows, I couldn't find that DVD-drive! In device manager I noticed that it's not working because it can't load it's drivers. HUH?!?!?! It worked flawlessly like 2 minutes ago! I removed the drive from device manager and rebooted the machine. Again, Windows detected the drive, but again, it couldn't load the drivers! I went to Microsofts website and to HP's website and tried to find additional information. No luck.

This pisses me off :|! There NO reason why that drive shouldn't work! How to get it to work? Re-install the original CD-ROM, let Windows detect & install it, remove that drive, install the DVD+RW again... I'm NOT going to re-install Windows over something as stupid as this!

 

[djs1w]

I had a similar problem with an HP burner (8250 internal) couple nights ago. I needed to move my burner from one PC (which has a small HD and not enough room to fit 650 megs worth of .wav files to my main one. Opened up the cases then and moved it over and booted win2k. After I logged in it started saying that I had ejected a device and it kept saying this over and over. I finall got it to stop and looked in the device manager, and it had a string of funky numbers and letters for only ONE drive, where as it should of found two, cd rom, cd curner.

Shut the machine down, unhooked the cd-rom, booted, and it recognized the burner just fine. Shut it down again, hooked up the cd rom, all hell breaks loose again. So basically I could only have one of the two hooked up. BLEH :|

 

[Nemesis77]

I don't have any other CD-drives in this comp. That DVD+RW is the only one. It's a secondary master. Well, I guess I'll remove it, re-check the jumpers (should be right), boot with the original CD-ROM-drive, remove it, re-install DVD and hope that everything works...

 

[WA261]

almost same thing happened to me on an install of a printer...turned out the drivers on the disk were not for 2k =D

 

[BillGates]

Did you happen to remove any crappy Adaptec (or Roxio) software?? I had a guy who uninstalled their stuff in win2k as well and after rebooting found that his CD drives were totally gone, not visible in device manager, my computer, disk management, etc. Turns out that software removes a reg key and your stuff is gone til you fix it. They're aware of it and have the fix posted on their website.

 

[Cfour]

Yup the same thing happened to me and I couldn't get it to work. I got sick of it and reformatted :/.

Tony

 

[Passions]

same thing, i had both burner and dvd on win2k, next min, i lost them both. couldn't get em back.

winxp baby.