Repair Install: IDE Optical Drives Missing?

[aNTiChRisT]

Hey there,

Repair Install of Windows XP Pro with SP2 integrated. Hardware in sig,

The image drive from Alcohol 120% is showing, but my disk drives arent? (One DVD-RW on CD-RW)

They are both showing up in the BIOS so i dont know what is up? Any ideas?

Thanks,

~t0m

[Know Nuttin]

do you see anything in device manager that may indicate a problem?

[zip22]

alcohol 120% seems to totally mess up windows recognizing drives. if you cant figure it out, i would try removing that.

[aNTiChRisT]

Device manager looks fine, i'll remove Alcohol and see if i can get it to work. Cheers.

~t0m

[aNTiChRisT]

Nope :(

Does this mean i have to do another repair reinstall, with Alcohol uninstalled? Pfft i'll just backup and reformat tbh!

~t0m

[Know Nuttin]

so do you see the optical drives in device manager?

[aNTiChRisT]

No, they are not in device manager or my computer.

They show in bios, and i am able to boot from them aswell.

~t0m

[Know Nuttin]

have you tried deleting your IDE controllers, rebooting, letting them redetect and see if the optical drives are detected?

[aNTiChRisT]

Aha! That worked. Thank you my friend :)

~t0m