re: WinME won't detect my CD-RW Drive...
Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 7:16 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
Simple. When you jumpered the two drives the same and powered up the system, Windows
ME Plug and Play saw a major hardware failure that it could not resolve, flagged
the secondary IDE channel as having problems and shutdown its IDE support for non
disk drive devices.
Until you remove all of these conflicts and flags, it will remain so.
Now that the hardware is sorted out, there are several steps you still need to
do.
1) Boot the system into its BIOS CMOS Setup and reset the BIOS Plug and Play configuration
data in case it is still messed up. Go to the PnP/PCI Configurations
section and Enable the Reset Configuration Data or ESCD option. Save
the setup and exit. BIOS will rebuild the DMI Configuration table. Some vendor system
do not have this option, but just do it automatically when you enter/exit CMOS Setup.
2) Boot normally and go to Device Manager, select the items under IDE Controller
that are still flagged as having problems and with them each highlighted, click the
"Remove" button to remove them from the current system configuration. Then reboot
the system. PnP should find them and reload the device drivers.
3) {optional step to clean up PnP for CD-Rom drives} Reboot system into Safe
Mode and go to Device Manager again, and expand the CDROM entry. If any CD-Rom
device is listed that is not currently on your system, select each/all of the CDROM
devices and click Remove for each of them. Plug and Play will find them again and
not have to worry about devices that have been removed or were listed in error. Reboot
into normal mode.
4) Start - RUN - REGEDIT, and do a search of the system Registry for NOIDE
parameter. If found, delete the entry from the system Registry, exit and reboot the
system.
All should be well with the CD-Rom drives and you can finish loading any new software
you need for them.
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