Cd and dvd drive don't detect cd

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  1. frit

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    this problem i had the minute after i formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows XP. When i insert a cd in my cd or dvd drive, windows doesn't detect the cd and i can't acces it. Sometimes i get an error : drive not ready. Both cd and dvd drive are detected in windows and before i formatted my hard drive everything worked perfect.
     
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    any exclamation marks in device manager??. remove drives from device manager than restart windows to load it's own drivers
     
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    i already tried that but no difference, and there were/are no exclamation marks in device manager .
     
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    reseat all drive cables both on drives & on motherboard. physically disable a drive than restart computer to see if windows sees other drive & a disk. try that with other drive too. which drive is master & slave & on what cable
     
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    This sounds like a jumper problem. Albeit, if it worked before I have no idea why it wouldn't now. Especially if you haven't changed anything.

    I had the same problem in one of my older PCs when I set the DVD-Rom and the CD Burner both to master. They'd come up in XP but neither of them would work.
     
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    if it worked before, it has to work now ! it had to got something to do with windows. I tried updates, etc
     
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    did you load sp2???
     
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    i never installed or downloaded sp2. Automatic updates ar disabled, and i've checked it, it is not installed.
     
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    try reloading windows on top of self to see if fix problem
     

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