Question about 'Top five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware '
Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 10:03 am
Posted by Clif Mann
(5 messages posted)
I have a question about Top
five reasons why Windows doesn't support your hardware :
I have just upgraded computers to a Athlon 1.2Ghz, 512 RAM. I installed my USB Zip
drive and it works fine. I also have a Mitsumi USB CD-R/RW 4x2x8. The computer recognizes
it in windows Sysinfo.
In Device Manager it shows up under SCSI devices (I guess this is normal for a virtual
device. But the CD-RW drive does not show up in Explorer or the Adaptec software
it came with.
Pacific Digital's (the brand name) web site does not support this anymore. They say
it is to old (although I bought it new just over a year ago).
Any help would be appreciated.
Clif Mann
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re: cd-rw not showing up in windows explorer
Tuesday, July 30, 2002 at 11:09 am
Posted by Tris
(1 messages posted)
i have the same problem although with a different cd writer.
I just bought a plextor cd-rw drive, fitted it perfectly, it was detected in dos
and shows up in device manager and disk management. The funny thing is it doesnt
show up in windows explorer. All my other drives show up fine.
I can explore the cd-rw drive by using the run command within the start menu.
I searched microsoft support for possible solutions,
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q298207&
The above page suggests changing the drive letter using disk manager, i did this
but no change, i am on a network but i havent (knowingly) mapped any drives over
the network.
Im going to try contacting microsoft support over the phone.
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