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My CDRW and DVD drives are no longer being recognized at boot up. I recently
put an old hard drive back in the machine to copy some old files to a new
hard drive and then I removed the old hard drive again. Did this screw up my
BIOS?

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Sincerely,

John V. Boyle

Make sure that you haven't disturbed/loosened the CD cables
when you were working inside the box. Check all cables,
and make sure they are seated snuggly.


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:05:46 GMT, in
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John V. Boyle scrawled:

>My CDRW and DVD drives are no longer being recognized at boot up. I recently
>put an old hard drive back in the machine to copy some old files to a new
>hard drive and then I removed the old hard drive again. Did this screw up my
>BIOS?

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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

Checked them a number of times, and they seem to be where they should.
What's next?

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Sincerely,

John V. Boyle

Please include some of the message you are replying to.

Next? Have you physically removed and replaced the cables/cards?
Not just look to see that "they seem to be where they should".


On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:49:47 GMT, in
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John V. Boyle scrawled:

>Checked them a number of times, and they seem to be where they should.
>What's next?

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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

>Next? Have you physically removed and replaced the cables/cards?
>Not just look to see that "they seem to be where they should".

Yes, a couple of times.


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Sincerely,

John V. Boyle

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:19:00 GMT, in
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John V. Boyle scrawled:

>>Next? Have you physically removed and replaced the cables/cards?
>>Not just look to see that "they seem to be where they should".
>
>Yes, a couple of times.

Boot into Safe Mode and remove any and ALL entries for
your CDRW/DVD devices from Device Manager. Reboot
and see if they are re-detected.

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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

"John V. Boyle" <> wrote in message
news:8lyhb.33689$...
> >Next? Have you physically removed and replaced the cables/cards?
> >Not just look to see that "they seem to be where they should".
>
> Yes, a couple of times.
>
>
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> Sincerely,
>
> John V. Boyle
>
>

I am having this same problem, and I haven't opened my case at all.
Actually, I started another post about it, because I hadn't seen this one,
yet.

Grimtooth wrote:
> "John V. Boyle" <> wrote in message
> news:8lyhb.33689$...
>
>>>Next? Have you physically removed and replaced the cables/cards?
>>>Not just look to see that "they seem to be where they should".
>>
>>Yes, a couple of times.
>>
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>>Sincerely,
>>
>>John V. Boyle
>>
>>
> I am having this same problem, and I haven't opened my case at all.
> Actually, I started another post about it, because I hadn't seen this one,
> yet.

I can't see the original post, but if this is WinXP, it's common and
easy to fix.

Can you pls provide the details, which are missing from view on some
short-retention news servers?