Hi :) I have win2000 installed what the problem is that my writer is detected by bios but is not shown in 'my computer' under win2000 though it is shown and works fine in win98SE please help. :o

It may either be incompatible with Win 2000, or may need to have drivers installed to work with that O/S.
Did you check the manuf's site for compatibility and/or drivers?

My CD-drives need no drivers although the IDE Controllers do.
How are things looking in Device Manager?
Any disabled items? [Yellow "!" mark or red "X".]

It would be a good idea to check the suitability of your hardware and software to work with Win2000. You should really have done that BEFORE you installed, but you can do it now.
To do that you need to run the copy of Win2000's "Winnt32.exe" with the "/checkupgradeonly" switch. The Windows installation program will then not install, but only check your setup and generate a report as a text file. This may say that the driver for your IDE controller is incompatible.
How?
In the "Start->Run->Open" box type the address of "Winnt32.exe" and add a space followed by the switch and hit "ok".
e.g. d:\Win2000\I386\winnt32 /checkupgradeonly
Change this to suit the location of the file on your PC.
What I did was to copy the Windows installation files to a partition on the HDD and run the upgrade check 1st then installed from there and left the files in position.

When my pci capture card went faulty and I tried to reinstall it in XPpro, both my optical drives dissappeared in My Computer. I would boot into 98SE and they were still there. :confused: A force escd in BIOS setup or a repair install are about the only ways I would think they'd show up again barring a reinstall.

"When my pci capture card went faulty and I tried to reinstall it in XPpro, both my optical drives dissappeared in My Computer."
Resource conflict caused when installing the capture card, disabled the Secondary IDE Controller, so the drives controlled by that no longer registered?

"I would boot into 98SE and they were still there."
98SE had had previously resolved all conflicts, all hardware was enabled, and the configuration remained unchanged, so it still worked?

"A force [update of the] escd in BIOS setup"
That would make certain that all presently connected PCI hardware was detected and catered for.

"or a repair install...reinstall"
That would make certain that all the hardware catered for by the BIOS and recorded in the ESCD would be catered for in Windows [provided the available drivers worked].

:D :D :D

Sylvander,
You took my 3 lines and made 4 paragraphs out of it! You trying to s-t-r-e-t-c-h my words?? LOL!!!

Let me explain the disappearance of the drives in XP.

I had the drives in 'My Computer' and the capture card was installed and also the software. Then, when trying to open the program and start watching television or capturing HI-8 tapes, the pc would blue screen and recovering from that, either any-key, end-tasking or reboot, any of these would no longer 'see' the optical drives. I don't think it has to do with resource conflicts but something deeper as-in, damaged circuitry in the card AND the mobo. When doing same in Win98, the drives would not disappear but there were blue screens there as well.

My new card came in, although I still have no captured sound, there are no longer any freeze-ups, blue screens and my drives remain put. New mobo arrived today and will be installed prior to the end of the weekend.

Then I can do it all over again :rolleyes: (I surely hope not)

Vim,
I was merely posting that the disappearance of drives can be caused by other ways than cabling, failed drives, resource conflicts etc.