Hi......both my CD drives dont work. I have a cd rom drive (D) and a cd rw drive (E). Neither of them read any type of disc, whether it be data, music, photos etc and i have tried these disc in another pc and they work fine. I am using OS windows xp. I have been down all the routes of device manager and it says everything is working. I have uninstalled the drives and then restarted my pc, and windows automatically detected them and installed them. I have also done a system restore and ran the troubleshooter. None of these helped. Please help me as I cannot even backup my pc. Thanks.
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Jump to PostDid ur drives work b4, when did the problem start, did u install any new software or hadrives.
i faced a similar problem, firstly on the IDE cable. the first connector must go with the master cd drive, then the second connecter with the slave.
Jump to Posti faced a similar problem, firstly on the IDE cable. the first connector must go with the master cd drive, then the second connecter with the slave.
Also ensure the jumpers are set up correctly. However, since the drives are being detected in Windows, I don't think this is the …
Jump to PostIm trying to get this right, you say they both arent working. My last ? is did they both stop reading cd's at the same time?
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