Folks,
My NEC-3540 has completely disappeared from WinXP SP2. Shows up in the
bios, I can boot to cd/dvd's - I've even reinstalled WinXP to a different
directory via cd on the same drive, but on booting to that install - still
no DVD drive.
I tried flashing the firmware with NEC's official .exe
"j m g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks,
> My NEC-3540 has completely disappeared from WinXP SP2.
> Any idea's? Thanks.
Start with the basics:
Is it in device manager, disabled?
Search for new hardware?
Ghost/phantom devices?
hth,
al
Has it ever been listed in Windows Explorer? Could this be a SP2 issue? SP2
does not recognize many relatively new drives, even though they will work fine
with other software.
Jeff
Subject: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP
Folks,
My NEC-3540 has completely disappeared from WinXP SP2. Sho
At 02:26 PM 19/04/2007, j m g wrote:
Folks,
My NEC-3540 has completely disappeared from WinXP SP2. Shows up in
the bios, I can boot to cd/dvd's - I've even reinstalled WinXP to a
different directory via cd on the same drive, but on booting to that
install - still no DVD drive.
It's not thes
I've run into this problem before. I use to encrypt my Temp directories. While applying various M$ patches, the files became corrupted and/or unreadable. If this is the case for you, you have to find all of the encrupted files in the $windir and replace them with non-encrypted versions.Hope that
Thanks folks, - I'll try the reg keys.
Has stopped showing up everywhere - not in device manager at all, since it's
the 1 drive I don't even have a section for CD/DVD's, not in Storage device
under Computer management, doesn't pop when I do add/remove hardware, etc.
And it's a box thats been runn
have a friend who just called and got a new laptop and is trying to xfer files
with a thumb drive. She says the first batch went OK but now vista will not see
anything on the thumb drive at all. files are seen on xp box no problem. I have
no such bug here but I have hacked and tweaked vista for
I have a U3 2gig that shows up on two different drive letters, not even
consecutive, maybe she is looking at the wrong one.
Mark
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crone be crone, possible I guess >:-}
hope all is well
fp
At 07:15 PM 4/19/2007, Mark Dodge Poked the stick with:
>I have a U3 2gig that shows up on two different drive letters, not even
>consecutive, maybe she is looking at the wrong one.
>
>Mark
>
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