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I reported earlier about a problem a friend has with her CD/DVD drives
and another problem has occurred.

The original problem was she lost the drivers for both her CD/DVD and
CD-RW drives (2 different drives). After doing a system restore the
drives were back, but the divers disappeared in a few days. After
several attempts to restore I gave up. Earlier someone told me to
check the cables to the drives, this worked. I removed the cable from
the CD-RW and the CD/DVD driver appeared, no reboot necessary.

Why would the CD-RW take down the CD/DVD? Could it be a bad cable?
The system has never been opened before.

Steve

daults(spy)@comcsat.net wrote in news:ijo240habc5o4s5cv7ghslji090bqc46u6@
4ax.com:

> Why would the CD-RW take down the CD/DVD? Could it be a bad cable?
> The system has never been opened before.

.... You removed the IDE cable with the system power on??? That is a
complete horrible no-no.

To answer the question above, due to how IDE drives work, having one bad
drive on a cable can cause both drives to not work correctly or at all.

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"daults (spy)" <@comcsat.net> wrote in message
news:...
> I reported earlier about a problem a friend has with her CD/DVD drives
> and another problem has occurred.
>
> The original problem was she lost the drivers for both her CD/DVD and
> CD-RW drives (2 different drives). After doing a system restore the
> drives were back, but the divers disappeared in a few days. After
> several attempts to restore I gave up. Earlier someone told me to
> check the cables to the drives, this worked. I removed the cable from
> the CD-RW and the CD/DVD driver appeared, no reboot necessary.

Are we to assume from this last sentence that you removed the cable with the
PC on? Now THAT is very hazardous. Consider yourself lucky that nothing
serious happened.

Mark Mandell
>
> Why would the CD-RW take down the CD/DVD? Could it be a bad cable?
> The system has never been opened before.
>
> Steve

On 29 Feb 2004 05:22:54 GMT, DeMoN LaG <n@a> wrote:

>daults(spy)@comcsat.net wrote in news:ijo240habc5o4s5cv7ghslji090bqc46u6@
>4ax.com:
>
>> Why would the CD-RW take down the CD/DVD? Could it be a bad cable?
>> The system has never been opened before.
>
>... You removed the IDE cable with the system power on??? That is a
>complete horrible no-no.
>
>To answer the question above, due to how IDE drives work, having one bad
>drive on a cable can cause both drives to not work correctly or at all.

I guess I explained that wrong. First I removed the cable with the
power off, always work on systems with the power off. Let's see if I
can explain things better. I installed a driver for different brand
CD drive seeing I couldn't find what drive she had in the system, but
it didn't work. When I removed the IDE cable and rebooted the system
it never detected new hardware and when I removed the driver for the
wrong CD drive the correct one appeared. It was like it was there all
the time, but just wouldn't show in the list.

If they are on the same cable and it came loose or went bad they could both
go down.
"daults (spy)" <@comcsat.net> wrote in message
news:...
> I reported earlier about a problem a friend has with her CD/DVD drives
> and another problem has occurred.
>
> The original problem was she lost the drivers for both her CD/DVD and
> CD-RW drives (2 different drives). After doing a system restore the
> drives were back, but the divers disappeared in a few days. After
> several attempts to restore I gave up. Earlier someone told me to
> check the cables to the drives, this worked. I removed the cable from
> the CD-RW and the CD/DVD driver appeared, no reboot necessary.
>
> Why would the CD-RW take down the CD/DVD? Could it be a bad cable?
> The system has never been opened before.
>
> Steve