Driva a: in MS Dos Compatibility mode Now CD/DVD Missing too Monday, March 8, 2004 at 2:31 am Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by st3ve (2 messages posted) Hi All Okay I'm stumped here. First my a: drive packed in so I went, settings/control panel/system/performance. I noticed a message. Drive a: is using an MS-DOS compatibility mode file system. I also noticed that the drive is no longer referred to as drive a: in control panel. It is now called removable device. When I click on it my system freezes then crashes I disconnected the drive and still receive the same message. I reconnected the drive. I have now realised that the CD and DVD rom are both missing altogether. When I look in Device manager they're simply not listed. When I do a find new hardware wizard it doesn't find them. I followed the Windows advice on MS Dos Compatibility but found no solution. I also notice that someone else in this forum had a similar problem but the suggestions there have not helped in my case. I'm also getting .dll errors when Mcafee starts up so I have reinstalled their virus scan engine, which I ran, no viruses found. However Mcafee is once again missing the .dll files on startup. So perhaps I may be infected. Any ideas? Responses to this message: re: Driva a: in MS Dos Compatibility mode Now CD/DVD Missing too (st3ve: Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at 1:58 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Driva a: in MS Dos Compatibility mode Now CD/DVD Missing too (st3ve: Mon, Mar 8, 2004, 2:31 am) re: Driva a: in MS Dos Compatibility mode Now CD/DVD Missing too (st3ve: Tue, Mar 9, 2004, 1:58 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum