Re: CDRom drive not available unless booted up with disk
From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 02/04/04
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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 21:23:20 +1100
"Calvin" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Have noticed this occuring a couple of times at one of our
> sites on different computers.
>
> The computers it is affecting are IBM 300 GLs all running
> Windows 2000. They are server connected across a network.
>
> What happens is that the CDRom drives are not available to
> the users unless they insert the CD disk into the drive
> and then reboot the machines. If they reboot then they
> can see the CD drive in windows explorer as long as they
> rebooted with the disk in the drive.
>
> If they rebooted without the disk in the drive then the CD
> drive is not present in windows explorer and if they then
> put the disk into the drive it is not shown. They cannot
> access it.
>
> At first I thought this was a hardware fault, but I have
> seen it occur on a number of these computers now.
>
> Is it a hardware fault or is it something else?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Calvin
Many PCs show a table of available disks & CD drives at boot
time. The table is generated by the BIOS. When you press the
Pause key then you can study this table at your leisure.
Do your PCs show a CD drive at this stage?
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