Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Hi, I'm Mark, and I'm an idiot.
I finally got so frustrated with my DVD drive not working (I just wanted to watch a movie!) so I booted back into XP, and lo and behold, it doesn't work there either. The drive shows up, but won't recognize a disk. Already sensing that I've made a grade A fool of myself, I shut down the computer and what do you know, the IDE cable has somehow come loose. I pop it back in, boot into 7 Beta and voila! there's my DVD drive. Funny thing is, it still thinks I have a floppy drive as well, so I'm really not sure where that came from. Just goes to show you that the first question should always be: "is it plugged in?"
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Indeed glad you got it worked out though, I'm wondering if it is assuming you have a floppy because you mobo has a floppy controller and they don't really provide feedback unless accessed. Is your floppy controller disabled in bios, if not try that and see if the floppy drive disappears.
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