re: Driva a: in MS Dos Compatibility mode Now CD/DVD Missing too
Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at 1:58 am
Posted by st3ve
(2 messages posted)
Okay figured it out. I don't know how the problem began but I do know how it became
worse. When I disconnected the a: drive (floppy) I must have loosened the cd/dvd
cable on the motherboard. I pushed this back in firmly, then I realised that all
this time I hadn't even re-connected the power cable of the floppy drive, I'd only
connected the thick grey cable (and that was incorrectly fitted - the red stripe
should point to pin 1 on the floppy drive) All works fine now.
So my advice, if winME reports that drive x is operating in ms dos compatibilty file
system mode, or if you suddenly lose drives E and F (CD/DVD) check your connections
on the motherboard first, before doing anything else...
I hope this info helps anyone else with similar issues.
On Monday, March 8, 2004 at 2:31 am, st3ve wrote:
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>Hi All
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>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
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>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.
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>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.
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>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?
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