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for some reason, my bios won't detect my cd/rw and dvd drive
-both drives are on the secondary IDE on my motherboard
-i have a dualboot XP/2K (don't ask why.. testing purposes)
on the same partition
-on 2k, computer management said i have a "Bad Block?" on my cr/rw?.. im sorta confused on this one?
- 2k detects my secondary ide controller and says its ok
- yes i checked the cables (power and ide)
- to test, i set my bios to only recognize my secondary
IDE
- both drives work (have another computer and detected it)
- I know the motherboard ide is not busted. i fixed it 2 times and win2k is detecting it
i fixed this two times but it tends to stop detecting
1. it first stopped when i uninstalled nero
2. i did a clean boot with 2k and it fixed
3. for some reason the drives stopped detecting
4. cleared bios hardware configuraton and fixed
5. installed my second 30gb hard drive on primary slave
6. stopped working
i possibly tried almost everything to my knowledge. i have no clue what to do now. im not panicing. im just running out of ideas. Thanks
If all else fails.... imma call hp, i have a 9695C and yes i know HP doesn't support 2k or XP but it worked fine for a couple of days.
for some reason, my bios won't detect my cd/rw and dvd drive
-both drives are on the secondary IDE on my motherboard
-i have a dualboot XP/2K (don't ask why.. testing purposes)
on the same partition
-on 2k, computer management said i have a "Bad Block?" on my cr/rw?.. im sorta confused on this one?
- 2k detects my secondary ide controller and says its ok
- yes i checked the cables (power and ide)
- to test, i set my bios to only recognize my secondary
IDE
- both drives work (have another computer and detected it)
- I know the motherboard ide is not busted. i fixed it 2 times and win2k is detecting it
i fixed this two times but it tends to stop detecting
1. it first stopped when i uninstalled nero
2. i did a clean boot with 2k and it fixed
3. for some reason the drives stopped detecting
4. cleared bios hardware configuraton and fixed
5. installed my second 30gb hard drive on primary slave
6. stopped working
i possibly tried almost everything to my knowledge. i have no clue what to do now. im not panicing. im just running out of ideas. Thanks
If all else fails.... imma call hp, i have a 9695C and yes i know HP doesn't support 2k or XP but it worked fine for a couple of days.