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frit
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_ 		22. January 2005 @ 10:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
this problem i had the minute after i formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows XP. When i insert a cd in my cd or dvd drive, windows doesn't detect the cd and i can't acces it. Sometimes i get an error : drive not ready. Both cd and dvd drive are detected in windows and before i formatted my hard drive everything worked perfect.
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ddp
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_ 		22. January 2005 @ 10:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
any exclamation marks in device manager??. remove drives from device manager than restart windows to load it's own drivers
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frit
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_ 		22. January 2005 @ 11:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i already tried that but no difference, and there were/are no exclamation marks in device manager .
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ddp
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_ 		22. January 2005 @ 11:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
reseat all drive cables both on drives & on motherboard. physically disable a drive than restart computer to see if windows sees other drive & a disk. try that with other drive too. which drive is master & slave & on what cable
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_ 		22. January 2005 @ 13:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This sounds like a jumper problem. Albeit, if it worked before I have no idea why it wouldn't now. Especially if you haven't changed anything.

I had the same problem in one of my older PCs when I set the DVD-Rom and the CD Burner both to master. They'd come up in XP but neither of them would work.
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frit
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_ 		22. January 2005 @ 23:25 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if it worked before, it has to work now ! it had to got something to do with windows. I tried updates, etc
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ddp
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_ 		23. January 2005 @ 06:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
did you load sp2???
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frit
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_ 		23. January 2005 @ 06:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i never installed or downloaded sp2. Automatic updates ar disabled, and i've checked it, it is not installed.
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ddp
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_ 		23. January 2005 @ 06:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
try reloading windows on top of self to see if fix problem
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