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boygenius145

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D: gone
« on: June 28, 2005, 11:46:58 PM »
k well my hp pavilion recently died (the motherboard at least), so took the hard drive and attached it to another computer, a tower computer i got from a friend. Anyways I'd just bought a new samsung cdrw/dvd player, which I had attached to my pavilion. I also transferred this over. I also made the hp hard drive primary master. When I boot up the computer, it detects the cdrw/dvd player as my primary slave as it should, but when windows is loaded, I can't access it nor does it show up as a drive on my computer.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    Re: D: gone
    « Reply #1 on: June 29, 2005, 12:21:04 AM »
     boygenius145........Can you go into the bios and see if it sees the cdrw/dvd drive ?  

    When you istalled the cdrw/dvd drive did you see the message new hardware detected ?

    Can you change the cd drive to the Secondary master and see if it shows up that way ?


    dl65  ::)
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    Raptor

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    Re: D: gone
    « Reply #2 on: June 29, 2005, 03:02:14 AM »
    Is the CD-RW/DVD player connected as a slave on the same IDE cable as the HDD is or did you connect it as a Slave to the second IDE channel without a master?
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    merlin_2

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    Re: D: gone
    « Reply #3 on: June 29, 2005, 05:50:32 AM »
    You may want to consider this reg patch <cddgone>
    Read more beforehand>http://aumha.org/regfiles.htm
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    boygenius145

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    Re: D: gone
    « Reply #4 on: June 29, 2005, 02:01:04 PM »
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    Is the CD-RW/DVD player connected as a slave on the same IDE cable as the HDD is or did you connect it as a Slave to the second IDE channel without a master?


    I hooked the CD-RW/DVD player to the slave on the same IDE cable as well. I set the bios to autodetect them, and it detects the cdrw/dvd player at the boot screen, but once windows loads, its not there. I'll check out that patch and see if it works, ty.
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    boygenius145

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    Re: D: gone
    « Reply #5 on: June 29, 2005, 02:04:33 PM »
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    boygenius145........Can you go into the bios and see if it sees the cdrw/dvd drive ?  

    When you istalled the cdrw/dvd drive did you see the message new hardware detected ?

    Can you change the cd drive to the Secondary master and see if it shows up that way ?


    dl65  ::)


    I've tried setting it as the secondary master and slave as well, with the same results. Also it showed new hardware detected when i installed it onto the HDD before I switched motherboards.  Also it is detected from the bios.
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    merlin_2

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    Re: D: gone
    « Reply #6 on: June 29, 2005, 02:06:18 PM »
    Did you read my post  ::)
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    boygenius145

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    Re: D: gone
    « Reply #7 on: June 29, 2005, 03:41:53 PM »
    yup  :P

    problem is i run windows 98se.
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