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madrab
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_ 		17. October 2005 @ 09:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey guys,

first up my comp is a dell xps gen4, 2gb ram,250gb sata hd, running xp home

i wanted to get another harddrive as my first was getting full up, so i bought a 300gb maxtor sata drive, plugged it in and set it up no problem, but when i rebooted it xp kept hangin so i disabled it and xp booted up fine, eventually i formatted the hd & reinstalled it (in safe mode) & when i rebooted i was all happy as everything was working good, that was until i went to play bf2 and got a message saying insert bf2 dvd, the dvd was in the drive but windows isnt showing the drive (in explorer or the hardware profiles)

the dvd drive works grand as the bios sees it & i can boot off it (i repaired windows to see if that would work) buty xo is having no luck with it

any ideas??

thanks in advance
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