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Dan
May 21st 04, 03:43 AM
Within the past two weeks, my dvd drive has changed it self
to a local drive and I can not use it anymore for playing
or loading software. I have gone through the messages and
have tried everything that was mentioned to do, but nothing
seems to work. Any help would be great. This is a great
site!!

Dan

Noel Paton
May 22nd 04, 07:04 AM
Try this
Boot to Safe Mode
Open Device Manager
Remove ALL CD/DVD drives
Remove ALL HDs
Remove the Master IDE Controller

Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the required drivers (may
take a couple of reboots)

See if that cures it.
--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

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"Dan" > wrote in message
...
> Within the past two weeks, my dvd drive has changed it self
> to a local drive and I can not use it anymore for playing
> or loading software. I have gone through the messages and
> have tried everything that was mentioned to do, but nothing
> seems to work. Any help would be great. This is a great
> site!!
>
> Dan

Dan
May 22nd 04, 06:19 PM
Noel,
Thanks, but this did not work. It only took one boot to
have the drivers reinstalled and when I removed the master
IDE controller, it left the primary and secondary
controllers there. Is this a problem?

Dan
>-----Original Message-----
>Try this
>Boot to Safe Mode
>Open Device Manager
>Remove ALL CD/DVD drives
>Remove ALL HDs
>Remove the Master IDE Controller
>
>Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the
required drivers (may
>take a couple of reboots)
>
>See if that cures it.
>--
>Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)
>
>Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
>http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
>
>Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
messages to NG's
>or
>http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp
>"Dan" > wrote in message
...
>> Within the past two weeks, my dvd drive has changed it self
>> to a local drive and I can not use it anymore for playing
>> or loading software. I have gone through the messages and
>> have tried everything that was mentioned to do, but nothing
>> seems to work. Any help would be great. This is a great
>> site!!
>>
>> Dan
>
>
>.
>

Noel Paton
May 23rd 04, 11:28 AM
Nope - that's normal.
In Device Manager, open the Properties page for the DVD - what does it say?

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp
"Dan" > wrote in message
...
> Noel,
> Thanks, but this did not work. It only took one boot to
> have the drivers reinstalled and when I removed the master
> IDE controller, it left the primary and secondary
> controllers there. Is this a problem?
>
> Dan
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Try this
> >Boot to Safe Mode
> >Open Device Manager
> >Remove ALL CD/DVD drives
> >Remove ALL HDs
> >Remove the Master IDE Controller
> >
> >Reboot to Normal Mode - Windows will reinstall the
> required drivers (may
> >take a couple of reboots)
> >
> >See if that cures it.
> >--
> >Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)
> >
> >Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
> >http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm
> >
> >Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post
> messages to NG's
> >or
> >http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2001/Mar01/Mar27pmvp.asp
> >"Dan" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> Within the past two weeks, my dvd drive has changed it self
> >> to a local drive and I can not use it anymore for playing
> >> or loading software. I have gone through the messages and
> >> have tried everything that was mentioned to do, but nothing
> >> seems to work. Any help would be great. This is a great
> >> site!!
> >>
> >> Dan
> >
> >
> >.
> >