lampron
09-06-2000, 09:36 PM
This will be confusing but bear with me - I had a post here before about adding a 3rd ide drive to my machine along with a cdrom. I tried it and it recognized the 3rd drive and my cdrom but neither works. Soooo I took out the 3rd drive and tried to restore it to original with two ide's and one cdrom. I have lost my cdrom drive letter - it does not show or read cd's but the bios says it is there. In windows I went to system and device manager and my hard disk controller (both) have exclamation marks beside them and so does the cdrom. I have tried removing them and reinstalling them but still no drive letter for cdrom and still exclamation marks. I have one ide master and one slave on one controller on motherboard and cdrom as slave on the other controller on motherboard. It worked before and cdrom was drive e: as was harddisk master c: and harddisk slave d:. I can still boot into windows 98se and access everything except cdrom although light on cdrom works and bios sees it. I tried to see if I could change drive letter to e: on cdrom in system device manager but there is no setting tab to do that. I saw the settings tab before I messed with this and now it is not there. Can anyone help???? I have tried disconnecting each and reconnecting but always comes up the same. (ps - when I put the 3rd drive in it took the letter e: - and did not move cdrom to the next letter and now there is no e: at all even after taking 3rd drive out) I have a headache now http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif(