Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-20 Thread FORC5
the add remove hardware wizard in W2K was better I think, XP is only ADD. fp At 08:59 AM 4/20/2007, Thane Sherrington Poked the stick with: >At 10:25 AM 20/04/2007, Al Anger wrote: > >>"j m g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> How/where would I check for those ghost/phantom devices? >> >>http://

Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-20 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:25 AM 20/04/2007, Al Anger wrote: "j m g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How/where would I check for those ghost/phantom devices? http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/tips.html#TRUE_UNINSTALL Leave it to MS to have an option "Show Hidden Devices" that doesn't work unless you do a bunch of ot

Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-20 Thread FORC5
I've been using a reg file to do this for years fp At 06:25 AM 4/20/2007, Al Anger Poked the stick with: >"j m g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> How/where would I check for those ghost/phantom devices? > >http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/tips.html#TRUE_UNINSTALL > >hth, >al -- Tallyho ! ]:8)

Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-20 Thread DHSinclair
Great info, Thanks Al. Best, Duncan At 09:25 04/20/2007 -0400, you wrote: snip > How/where would I check for those ghost/phantom devices? http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/tips.html#TRUE_UNINSTALL hth, al snip This email scanned for Viruses and Spam by ZCloud.net

Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-20 Thread Al Anger
"j m g" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How/where would I check for those ghost/phantom devices? http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/tips.html#TRUE_UNINSTALL hth, al

Re: Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-19 Thread j m g
01:16 PM To: "The Hardware List" Subject: X-SPAM Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP 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 &g

Re: Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-19 Thread Julian Zottl
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

Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-19 Thread Thane Sherrington
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

Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-19 Thread Jeff Lane
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

Re: [H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-19 Thread Al Anger
"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

[H]DVDRW disappeared from WinXP

2007-04-19 Thread j m g
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