DVD Drive Disappears After Installing Various Drivers
May 11, 2009
This was a weird one. I did a clean install of RC1. I used my Dell driver CD to reinstall drivers. After installing the sound, chipset, and SATA drivers the DVD drive would disappear at the end of each installation. I rebooted and BIOS did not detect it. I had to power off at the end of each installation to get the drive back.
I've copied the entire contents of the drive to the hard drive and had no problems. I installed one of the drivers from this copy on the hard drive and had no problems. This is all now working so I probably won't play too much with it but I wanted to put it out there for others to consider.
Drive identified as: TSSTcorp_DVD+-RW_TS-L633B
Also lists D200. I'm wondering if this is the firmware version.
Dell Latitide E5400
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Dec 28, 2009
MY DRIVE DATA DISSEAPPEAR AFTER INSTALLING XP:-
today i install windows XP- install audio driver then i open my G DRIVE (my songs drive) to check audio. it was empty then i check its properies it shows.
USED 11 GB
FREE 20 GB
as usual but it was empty
then i check disk G DRIVE for errors & then reinstall xp on formating C drive
after setup windows second time i open G DRIVE. it was still empty but when i see its properties it says:-
USED 0 BYTE
FREE 0 BYTE
CAPACITY 0 BYTE
PLZ HELP ME TO RECOVER MY DATA.
I AM ATTATCHING ITS PROPERTIES.
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NameATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
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