DVD-RW drive not recognized under Windows XP
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 by kona0197 | Discussion: Personal Computing
I have decided to start a new thread about this issue rather than further derail the other thread where we were talking about this.
I recently received a new DVD-RW drive courtesy of a friend here. After turning off the computer I removed the old drive. The old drive was the only IDE device on the system. I installed the new drive. The new drive uses the SATA interface.
After powering on the computer I went into the BIOS settings. BIOS confirms the new drive is connected. I am also able to boot of the new drive to bootable CDs and DVDs.
The problem is that Windows XP no longer says I have a DVD-RW drive. I only lists my hard drive and that's all under "My Computer". The new drive is plugged in correctly and runs just fine when I boot up a live Linux DVD. So I assume there is something that can fix this?
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Reply #42 Friday, January 25, 2013 12:02 PM
Thanks Jim. Now I know what it reminds me of. I did that with XP using Oracle. It was so butfugly I got rid of it. I din't want to use an OS on a little screen. I expected it to go full screen like a regular OS. At any rate I tried it and wasn't too impressed. Besides....if I do something like that again and screw it up yrag will consign me to skinners oblivion. lol
Reply #43 Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:12 AM
For those of you that use Daemon Tools, SlySoft has a free Virtual Clone Drive that is superior. It is less intrusive and works great with all versions of Windows.
Also, it's kinda pointless to install a virtual drive program on Windows 8 since it has that ability already built in.
Reply #44 Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:28 AM
Well, just to point out, Windows 7 Ultimate has it's own Backup ability too, but I prefer Easeus ToDo Workstation. Not all MS apps are superior to third party.
Reply #45 Saturday, January 26, 2013 1:44 PM
I also use Easeus Todo Workstation. It has its own version of safe mode, that's what I call it.
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Reply #41 Friday, January 25, 2013 11:53 AM
Ross, to install stuff ON a virtual drive, you'll need something like VMWare, or Oracle.