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February 22nd, 2006 23:00
XP detecting my drive twice
Posted this on another board, but no replies so I'm going to try you guys...
Need some help...I've got a GX240 with a Pioneer 107 DVD-RW. A few weeks ago, windows started picking up my drive twice. What I mean is, if I go to my computer, I've got a DVD-RW on drive D: and a DVD Drive on E:. The problem being, of course, that I have a slimline case and there is only one media drive in the unit. Originally this was just annoying, but lately I've had a couple of nice blue screen errors and reboots when accessing the drive.
I tried deleting both drives in and the secondary IDE channel in device manager, but all 3 are back on reboot. In properties, only 1 of the drives is actually detected as my pioneer while the other is a generic SCSI device. Firmware on dvd-rw is updated & I'm running latest BIOS. Formatting my hard drive is not an option as it's 160 gb & I have no place to move all my data to in the meantime. Already checked BIOS and secondary drive is listed as none.
I just disabled the device in my hardware profile for now, but pc is still acting sketchy. Any and all advice will be much appreciated.
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osprey4
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arsenalgunner
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February 23rd, 2006 00:00
arsenalgunner
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February 28th, 2006 18:00
Osprey,
That appears to have done it. Back to only 1 drive. Thanks a million for your help!