Disk Drives Gone??

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Disk Drives Gone??

Postby Double O Ninety » Sun Jan 12, 2003 5:02 pm

Hey, I was working on an AMV the other day, having some fun, you know...

I thought, hey! Time to add my last source!

So I pop my DVD into the drive, close it.

Smartripper says: No DVD found

Me: WTF?

So I go into Windows Explorer. I'm in My Computer, and to my horror, I HAVE NO C OR D DRIVE ANYMORE!

What do I do?

I can't reinstall the drives!

They are on disks...

I can't even restore the system because the last restore point was after they went byebye.

What do I do?
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Postby CArnesen » Sun Jan 12, 2003 5:06 pm

Cold-boot and call us in the morning... :wink:
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Postby kthulhu » Sun Jan 12, 2003 5:25 pm

Have you tried rebooting?
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Postby Brolli411 » Sun Jan 12, 2003 7:57 pm

The same thing has happened to me!!!! I can't fix it. I've tried everything. The drivers on the site are for Windows 95/98, and you have to do a bunch of crap to install them (load into DOS, set to Master), and I even did all of that... But still nothing workes.
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Sun Jan 12, 2003 8:24 pm

Ummm...maybe the cables fell out? Take the case apart and see.
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Postby Double O Ninety » Sun Jan 12, 2003 8:25 pm

kthulhu wrote:Have you tried rebooting?

Lots of times.
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Postby Double O Ninety » Sun Jan 12, 2003 8:26 pm

We'll try that, thanks Wolfwood.
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Postby kthulhu » Sun Jan 12, 2003 9:00 pm

Do the drives show up in Device Manager, in safe mode?
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Postby The Wired Knight » Sun Jan 12, 2003 9:53 pm

As everyone suggested, reboot, I had the same problem once and rebooting solved it.
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Postby jbone » Sun Jan 12, 2003 10:26 pm

Have you installed any new software lately, specifically Easy CD Creator or something similar which installs its own ASPI layer?

I've found that some software can cause drives to suddenly disappear, and they simply can not be recovered without reinstalling Windows.
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Postby Double O Ninety » Mon Jan 13, 2003 9:41 am

No I haven't, but our idea is to pull out all the plugs and rebut that way.

You have to spell it 'rebut...'

Because if we just restart, it has no effect.

I ran CHKDSK, and nothing...
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Postby Mr Pilkington » Mon Jan 13, 2003 10:00 am

This is why it's very important to keep a perfect image of you HDD handy at all times. The only recourse is to reformat. Kind of a bitch, but that's the way the PC crumbles.
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Postby Ashyukun » Mon Jan 13, 2003 11:14 am

This is one of the reasons why I have a separate partition for just Windows (even most of my programs go on another parition). I've reinstalled Windoze underneath my software several times when things have gone horribly wrong.
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Postby CArnesen » Mon Jan 13, 2003 11:29 am

Double O Ninety wrote:No I haven't, but our idea is to pull out all the plugs and rebut that way.

You have to spell it 'rebut...'

Because if we just restart, it has no effect.

I ran CHKDSK, and nothing...


Try the drives on a different computer to see if they work there, maybe your IDE controller stopped working. I seem to find that the motherboards sometimes don't last as long as the drives :?.

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Postby Double O Ninety » Mon Jan 13, 2003 3:25 pm

The mother board is three months old...
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