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CD-Roms not beeing Recognized by Windows
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Posted by: Darky!
Both my CD-Rom drives aren't beeing recognize by windows.
Let me explain.
Recently I ordered a 100GB WD Special Edition 8mb cache, 7200RPM etc. I copied everything from my 2nd HD, to my primary, then remove the case, removed the seconday drive, set the primary drive as slave, and set the new drive as master with slave present, and hooked everytihng back up proplerly. This didn't work,t he hard drive I had recieved had been imporperly shipped, therefore resulting in irrepairble damage. I have to send the drive back, but anywa,y after hooking eveythign back up the way it was before, I found this.
The CD-Roms aren't beeing recognized by windows anymore (I suspect because it booted off of the slave drive while the master (new drive) was still in it, for about 10 minutes). Attached is a screenshot.
I'm stumped, I've tried removing the via bus controller, but that jsut locks up windows, I've also tried installing the newest via 4-in-1 drivers.
Any ideas?
Posted by: Persephone
Have you tried restarting your computer, hitting the delete key while it is booting to get to your Bios and have it redetect the hard drives and other deviced hooked up to your two IDE controlers.
Posted by: Darky!
That was the first thing I tried.
Posted by: Tweaker
Go to system under start-control panel and then click the device manager and remove the cd rom from there and reboot. Windows should recognize it.
And if it's not in there, go to 'Add new hardware' and see if it will detect it.
Posted by: Outlaw
Try removing the IDE controllers in safe mode, then reboot and let windows find and install them again, that's about the only way to get them back.
Posted by: Darky!
Acctually, none of that worked, and I think this is why, the master boot record was altered hen I instaled the new HD, and botoed off the slave drive.
How do I go about fixing this?
This would also explain why my computer is slow, no virtual memory.
Screenshot shows the device manager telling me this.
Posted by: Outlaw
It says: "Master Boot Record modified. See the important details in help."
What are the important details it shows there?
You could try restarting in MSDOS-mode and typing "fdisk /mbr", that will create a new Master Boot Record, then restart your comp.
Fdisk should be in your windows dir.
Posted by: Persephone
Each physical hard drive has a master boot record.
If the new hard drive was faulty I do not see how it could mess up the MBR of your old hard drive(s).
That type of DOS compatabilty mode could be caused by the operating system not recognized the type of hard drive that is installed because your BIOS does not recognise the drive. This type of problem can be solved by having your BIOS redetect all IDE devices as I suggested in my previous post.
Also this type of problem can be caused by a virus which messed up your drive's MBR.
tkron
Posted by: Darky!
Redecting in BIOS won't do anything.
Theres only two options, Auto-Detect, and Disabled.
I'll try making a new mbr as sniper suggested, and see if that works.
Posted by: Darky!
The Final Straw has been drawn.
Its all boiled down to this.
Format time.
Posted by: Freak
Damn that sucks! 
make good backups now, still gotta upload THPS3 to ya 
And maybe GTA3 if I can get my hands on a copy.
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