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**theunforgiven** · February 7th, 03:37 PM

We have a problem.

until recently, my D drive has been working swimmingly. However, the D drive no longer recognizes anything. ive tried all troubleshooting methods, and checked to see if it was plugged into the power supply.

the latest drivers are installed.

if you are smart and can answer this, i will be happy.

love,
theunforgiven.

**666paintballer** · February 7th, 03:40 PM

could just be busted. cd-rom drives arent that expensive anyway

**massballer2k5** · February 7th, 03:42 PM

Wait, is your D drive a cd-rom drive or a hard drive... because my D is HD by default..

**lbreevesii** · February 7th, 03:45 PM

its most likley a cd drive. by default C: is your booted windows hdd partition, D is either the next optical drive or the next hdd or hdd partition. A and B are reserved for fdd devices. have you upgraded anything latley? like added a hdd to the ide cable that the cd drive is using? its probably just went kaput.

**Ninja7** · February 7th, 03:46 PM

yea if you have had your cd drive for a while its probably just dead. does it spin when you put a disc in? if not then id just get a new one, they are pretty cheap

**massballer2k5** · February 7th, 03:53 PM

I have a cheap one Ill give u for free.. u just pay shippin... its somethin, hit me back if you need it

**1337** · February 7th, 04:16 PM

Check your IDE cables and make sure it's on the correct slot on the motherboard. Check your jumper thing and also make sure if it needs to be on primary or slave.

**janiboy088** · February 7th, 04:53 PM

just call dell...ur comp isnt that old....seriously, my bro calls dell about everything and they help a lot

i call them every time i need to like erase my hard drive or like a floppy disc problem i had

**Roobvandam** · February 7th, 06:27 PM

Same EXACT thing happend to me. I just got a huge upgrade (mobo, procsessor, vid card, memory, ect ect.) and it stopped working. Turns out, it was the drive. bout 20 bucks for a new one from newegg.

**lbreevesii** · February 7th, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by 1337PAINTBALLER

Check your IDE cables and make sure it's on the correct slot on the motherboard. Check your jumper thing and also make sure if it needs to be on primary or slave.

he's already checked power cables and it seems that he didn't screw with it, it just quit workin. so there won't be a problem with cabling. we shall see about the master/slave/cs jumper if he ever posts back...

**Gabriot** · February 7th, 07:13 PM

Have you been using like Daemon or anything recently? Sometimes that can f up your system recognition of drives. What about any external cd drives?

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