disc drives disapeared help!!

**fast t** · 11th October 2003, 15:01

both my disc drives ave disapeared n wen look at them in device mgr they ave warning tags on them ..any ideas ?? am at wits end aaarrrgggghhh...

am runnin xp pro by the way..

**Dutcho** · 11th October 2003, 15:56

Have you installed any hardware ? What is the error ? Have you tried uninstalling the devices and re installing them ? Does the bios detect them ok ?

LOL too many questions not enough answers....

**nara** · 11th October 2003, 16:54

I would start off by uninstalling them in device manager and then re-boot.

**cykeman** · 15th October 2003, 04:10

Check out their properties, thats why the warning symbols are there to tell you whats wrong.
This should be your first step!

**Dutcho** · 16th October 2003, 03:20

NA......Shoot em all and let god decide.

Did you sort this out m8ty ?

**Marktb** · 16th October 2003, 11:49

Try removing your IDE controller, restarting and letting windows detect it again.

**Scunner** · 23rd October 2003, 19:47

Check the jumpers on the drives, make sure they not both set to Master if they are on the same IDE cable. If they are on the same cable and the jumpers are correct, try swapping them around. The master disk (or the disk on the end of the cable if they are using the cable select jumper) is the controller. If it's built in disk controller is faulty it will mess up both disks on that channel.