Re: DVD Drive disappeared
From: Andrew Chalk (achalk_at_XXXmagnacartasoftware.com)
Date: 08/24/04
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:31:21 -0500
Found it!
This may be useful to others:
Windows configured the secondary IDE device to use DMA. I set it to use PIO
only and Windows recognized the drive.
- Andrew
"Andrew Chalk" <achalk@XXXmagnacartasoftware.com> wrote in message
news:uThEM%236gEHA.2916@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I just added a hard disk to my PC and the DVD drive disappeared from
> Windows, although not from the BIOS.
>
> I had
>
> IDE1
> -----
> Master: Hard Disk
> Slave: Hard Disk
>
> IDE2
> ------
> Master: DVD drive
>
> and all was fine.
>
> I changed IDE2 to:
> Master: DVD drive
> Slave: New hard disk.
>
> The hard disk appears as drive E: under XP, but the DVD drive has
> disappeared.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what caused this and how to fix it?
>
> Many thanks
>
>
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