PC not reading ROM drives ?

BreadBoard · 26-09-2006 9:38pm #1

I reformatted my two hard drives there about 2 weeks ago, no problems until now. Well I don't usually use my Rom drives but I want to burn some photos onto a CD.

Problem is the drives don't show up under "My Computer", I'd say it's a driver issue?

How do I sort this out?

quaidox · 26-09-2006 9:52pm

i'd say the problem is due to the assigned drive letters your two hard drives are using. change the one that is not assigned to C (or whatever one has the primary partition installed) to something like I, and reboot. You should see your cd-rom drive listed as D

Ruu_Old · 26-09-2006 9:54pm

Are the CD ROM drives showing up under Device Manager? You shouldn't need any drivers for them.

BreadBoard · 26-09-2006 9:55pm

Actually now that you mention it my non C drive is D but the text of it and every file in that HD is coloured blue !

EDIT

How do I change the D to an I ?

BreadBoard · 26-09-2006 9:56pm

Ruu wrote:

Are the CD ROM drives showing up under Device Manager? You shouldn't need any drivers for them.

No I can't see them there

BreadBoard · 26-09-2006 10:14pm

Ok all fixed

I went into BIOS mode and just set it to default settings.

quaidox · 26-09-2006 10:16pm

you can change the drive letter by right clicking the my computer icon, select manage, then go to disk management (in xp). right click on a drive to change it's letter.
i don't think this is your problem tho if you can't see the drive in the device manager.
i'd check the power and data connectors to the drive if i was you........

quaidox · 26-09-2006 10:18pm

or go into bios and reset to default settings!

BreadBoard · 26-09-2006 10:58pm

quaidox wrote:

or go into bios and reset to default settings!

PC not reading ROM drives ?

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