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New DVD burner installed, now old CD-R still there...
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26. December 2006 @ 18:32 |
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I hope I posted this in the right place! I have 2 DVD drives, one is my new burner, and the other is the existing DVD rom drive. I put the new one in place of my old CD-R drive. Now it keeps showing that one is still there. I went into system then hardware and uninstalled it. Every time I reboot it shows I have new equiptment, and it is there again. And as for the "letter" associated with the drive, is that chose buy the computer?
What am I doing wrong?
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27. December 2006 @ 15:31 |
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so u have 2 drives plugged in, the dvd burner and the dvd rom so whats the problem? they r both getting recognized
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28. December 2006 @ 16:05 |
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this is true, but wouldn't it bother you if you unistalled a drive and the computer shows it is still there. And every time you reboot it says "new hardware found" How is that it isn't even there?!
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28. December 2006 @ 16:57 |
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well to uninstall it u must remove it from the pc physically if ure not going to use it y do u have it on the computer?
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29. December 2006 @ 19:23 |
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Sorry, maybe everyones as tired as I am. I did REMOVE it from the computer "physically" and I also unistalled through the system/hardware. and it still recognises it when I reboot.
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30. December 2006 @ 03:41 |
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its a ghost then, too bad ghostbusters r out of bussines
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30. December 2006 @ 04:41 |
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@elokito
If you can't help him, stop wasting his time! Ghostbusters, ssheesh
@tjlmbklr
Your pc chooses the drive letter but you can change it. In Windows XP, go into the Control Panel, click on the Performance and Maintainence icon, select Administrative Tools, then launch the Computer Management applet. Select Disk Management from the Computer Management pane on the left, then find the CD or DVD drives in the graphical view on the right. Right click on each drive in turn and select Change Drive Letter and Paths, giving the drives the letters you want them to have.
I know this doesn't answer your initial question, because frankly I can't. But it does address your follow up on drive letters. And your first post was crystal clear.
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30. December 2006 @ 06:04 |
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thanks garmoon
I thought of a idea last night. Should I physically reinstall the drive, then go through the unistallation process in systems/hardware. the remove drive (physically) then re-install new drive?
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30. December 2006 @ 07:06 |
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dude its a ghost dnt u get it he uninstalled the drive PHYSICALLY but it still shows up when he restarts his pc
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30. December 2006 @ 09:08 |
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I get it. I know he physically uninstalled the drive. And he's asking how to get rid of the old one that keeps showing up, causing the problem. I was honest enough to admit I can't help him on that point; and I've yet to see ANYTHING positive in your posts to date that helps.
I stick by my original post.
@tjlmbklr
Do you have a Dell pc? Have you set the JUMPER on the new drive correctly? Are all the cables fully plugged in? Did you bend a pin on the new drive plugging it in? If yours is a Dell pc the Jumper should be set to CABLE SELECT. If not, set it to match the drive you removed, if you put it in the same slot. Wouldn't hurt to unplug the cables to the drive and reboot. Then plug them back in, reboot, and see what happens. Get the Jumpers right first if they aren't.
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30. December 2006 @ 13:13 |
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Thanks again, and I am sorry if I am stirring up some bad mojo between you two. If I recall correctly, I had the old CD-R drive on the bottom, the new DVD-RW is now on the top, where the existing DVD-rom is now on the bottom (before it was on top) The new DVD-RW is set to slave the old is at master. Maybe this is vitale info I should have given B4!
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30. December 2006 @ 13:42 |
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tjlmbklr dnt worry gaymoon doesnt have a sense of humor so were not friends, what u could do is switch around put the dvd burner on master and the dvd rom on slave
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30. December 2006 @ 18:18 |
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Originally posted by elokito:
tjlmbklr dnt worry gaymoon doesnt have a sense of humor so were not friends, what u could do is switch around put the dvd burner on master and the dvd rom on slave
Ok, I'll do that, but that doesn't solve the issue of the CD-R still for some unknow reason being recognized, when it isn't even there.
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30. December 2006 @ 18:47 |
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thats true probably the only way of getting rid of it is formating ure pc OR, u could just go to device manager and click disable ul never c it again
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31. December 2006 @ 05:11 |
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Originally posted by elokito:
thats true probably the only way of getting rid of it is formating ure pc OR, u could just go to device manager and click disable ul never c it again
This is a quote from my origanal post:
Originally posted by tjlmbklr:
......I went into system then hardware and uninstalled. Every time I reboot it shows I have new equiptment........
That was done, and it is still there, this is the issue. To future enhance the mystery, when I click on the drive in 'My computer' is says no drive exists..........wait I just checked; now it shows 3 DVDdrives, one of which it say DVD-ram. What the F#@K
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31. December 2006 @ 05:40 |
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uninstall and disable r 2 different things ok?
ure dvd burner shows up as dvd-ram thats normal cause it also burns dvd-ram , there is also the dvd-rom and the ghost, the cd-rom click disable on the device manager NOT uninstall just click disable thats it
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31. December 2006 @ 06:54 |
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.
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31. December 2006 @ 07:11 |
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@Eolikit
I've got a great sense of humor. At least your trying to help the guy now. I'll let you handle it and see how you do!
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31. December 2006 @ 07:38 |
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Originally posted by garmoon:
@elokito
Your pc chooses the drive letter but you can change it. In Windows XP, go into the Control Panel,click on the Performance and Maintainence icon, select Administrative Tools, then launch the Computer Management applet. Select Disk Management from the Computer Management pane on the left, then find the CD or DVD drives in the graphical view on the right. Right click on each drive in turn and select Change Drive Letter and Paths, giving the drives the letters you want them to have.
Here is a screen shot of my control panel screen, am I missing what you are talking about?
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31. December 2006 @ 09:54 |
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click switch to category view then follow steps
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31. December 2006 @ 10:28 |
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See, you 2 do work well together..lol! I am still having issues though. I found where to change the letter without a problem. When I 'disable' the drive, all seems well. It didappears from 'My Computer' and all other directories. And I insert a disk(blank, or whatever) then try burning something and it would fail(Nero). Then if I went back to 'My Computer' it will show the drive still there(empty though), but when I double click it says it's not accessible insted of asking to insert disk. I am so lost it makes no sense I know. I was just now able to copy a audio CD without a problem using Nero express feature.
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31. December 2006 @ 11:38 |
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ok turn off the pc and if u have another IDE cable switch it with the one placed one the dvd burner
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31. December 2006 @ 12:33 |
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Ah ha, you may be on to something. The new DVD drive I bought did come with a new IDE cable, I however I didn't use it, didn't think is was nessesary.
Anyway I have so much going on right now, and I am on my way out the door for my New years celebration. So have a safe one....both of you, and I'll dismantle my PC tomorrow and give er a whirl
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2. January 2007 @ 10:46 |
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maybe try unplugging all ide cables from mb and clearing your cmos then hooking back up the new dvd burner...just an idea, thats what i would have tried but im kind of a retard...anyways hope you had a safe new years and arent in jail.
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2. January 2007 @ 13:04 |
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Originally posted by basquiat:
..........clearing your cmos...........
Thank you.
Explain please.
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