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    external HDD larger than 128 Gb

    Hi all, I'm choosing a HDD for one of my relatives... This relative has a laptop compaq presario 716EA and a Phoenix bios which I don't have all the specifications about yet... I'v just this (truncated by msn messenger, I didn't notice at the time) ...
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    cd/dvd drive invisible under win xp pro

    hi bcastner, hi all, Just to tell you that everything is still working... So again a big thank to you ;-) Bye Lo
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    cd/dvd drive invisible under win xp pro

    Hi bcastner, It works :-) ! Yesterday, before going to sleep I removed the keys you mentionned (actually just the LowerFilters key as the UpperFilters key was not there). Then I rebooted but it still didn't work. So I turned the laptop and the drive off ... This morning I turned all on (first...
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    cd/dvd drive invisible under win xp pro

    yep you're right : i don't even know how i could turn all the services of acpi in once ! It was just an acronym mistake ! For the registry changes, I know I shouldn't have problems because I'm member of admninistrators group but i still have some ... Maybe this key is being used somewhere else...
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    cd/dvd drive invisible under win xp pro

    Sorry ! It was not acpi but Imapi service that i disabled ...
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    cd/dvd drive invisible under win xp pro

    hi bcastner and thanks for your help :-) I don't understand exactly what acpi means. I think I removed the service after my problems with my internal cd drive (I found in forums on internet that it could be the problem and after it worked and i had no problem at all with my internal drive after...
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    cd/dvd drive invisible under win xp pro

    Hi all, This is not the first time that it happens to me but i still haven't found the exact cause of this problem ... I bought a ide dvd writer 2 weeks ago with a ide->usb2 converter. I connected it to my laptop. The first time id dit it and also in the following days i had no problem. I...

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