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Max6

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Since: Apr 11, 2004
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Jan 01, 2005 4:35 pm
Post subject: SP2 and Optical Drives
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I have a combi Drive and a DVD Writer in my PC once Sp2 has been installed
I lose one of the drives, if I swap the IDE cables around I still only get
the one drive. Ive swapped the cables and both are fine.

Any ideas?

Cheers

Max

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johns123xxx

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Since: Dec 01, 2004
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 2:17 pm
Post subject: Re: SP2 and Optical Drives [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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I've seen that before .. weird. It self corrected after
I told the system to redetect its hardware. It found
all sorts of things, and after about 4 reboots all was
well. XP seems to go through a testing phase before
it gets stable. I have no idea what it is doing, but I've
learned to reboot a new install until it quits doing that.

johns

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Daniel19

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:35 pm
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On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:42:10 GMT, "Max" <landbuffer.DeleteThis@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

 >I have a combi Drive and a DVD Writer in my PC once Sp2 has been installed
 >I lose one of the drives, if I swap the IDE cables around I still only get
 >the one drive. Ive swapped the cables and both are fine.
 >
 >Any ideas?
 >
 >Cheers
 >
 >Max
 >
 >
Install SATA drivers, hit F6 when xp first boots from cd-rom. Follow
prompts

Dan<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Thomas Wendell

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:35 pm
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Some drives insist on being master if another (optical) is on the same
channel, especially with SP2...


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"Daniel" <emer_son.DeleteThis@att.net> kirjoitti viestissä
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 > On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 20:42:10 GMT, "Max" <landbuffer.DeleteThis@yahoo.co.uk>
 > wrote:
 >
  > >I have a combi Drive and a DVD Writer in my PC once Sp2 has been
installed
  > >I lose one of the drives, if I swap the IDE cables around I still only
get
  > >the one drive. Ive swapped the cables and both are fine.
  > >
  > >Any ideas?
  > >
  > >Cheers
  > >
  > >Max
  > >
  > >
 > Install SATA drivers, hit F6 when xp first boots from cd-rom. Follow
 > prompts
 >
 > Dan<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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