missing two r/w cd hardware devices that were pre assigned earlier

Hello;
I went to look at what I had done so far and I noticed an error specifying
missing hardware devices but the drivers for those locations appeared ok.
(drive's b: & c:). besides doing a total restore is there any way to
reinsert those two missing hardware icons back so I can use them ? thank you
--
mrtigre

Rich
Fri May 16 18:00:31 PDT 2008

Give this a try www.dougknox.com Select WinXP Fixes and scroll
down to rt column 11 down. Restore Dvd/Cd
drives to WinExplorer. Download the fix.
"ragsy" <mrsragsy> wrote in message
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> Hello;
> I went to look at what I had done so far and I noticed an error specifying
> missing hardware devices but the drivers for those locations appeared ok.
> (drive's b: & c:). besides doing a total restore is there any way to
> reinsert those two missing hardware icons back so I can use them ? thank
> you
> --
> mrtigre

mrsragsy>
Fri May 16 19:07:01 PDT 2008


--
mrtigre


"ragsy" wrote:

> Hello;
> I went to look at what I had done so far and I noticed an error specifying
> missing hardware devices but the drivers for those locations appeared ok.
> (drive's b: & c:). besides doing a total restore is there any way to
> reinsert those two missing hardware icons back so I can use them ? thank you
> --
> mrtigre

mrsragsy>
Fri May 16 19:14:00 PDT 2008

the help you have giving me so far has been great. However I was only able
to get one cd drive converted. I still need drive E: do I need to run this
for each drive I need converted? the error message was that it couldn't find
that particular physical drive name. I will continue tommorrow with this
thanks for all your halp I will close up on this then. if you have time just
leave me a note and tell me what I can to to correct my ways or do at this
point.? thank you much--Don--
mrtigre


"ragsy" wrote:

> Hello;
> I went to look at what I had done so far and I noticed an error specifying
> missing hardware devices but the drivers for those locations appeared ok.
> (drive's b: & c:). besides doing a total restore is there any way to
> reinsert those two missing hardware icons back so I can use them ? thank you
> --
> mrtigre

Rich
Fri May 16 22:00:17 PDT 2008

Don, from what you said if you open MyComputer you see the C, D but not
the E drive Icon. I would try right clicking
MyComputer>select Properties>Hardware>Device Manager>Dvd/Cdrom Drives.
Click on the plus sign and you should
see two entries for your cdrw drives. If there rt click on each one and
choose Uninstall. Restart your Computer and let
WinXP reinstall the drives.
"ragsy" <mrsragsy> wrote in message
news:4138EB15-6D5D-4532-8A35-5CF868F7D12F@microsoft.com...
> Hello;
> I went to look at what I had done so far and I noticed an error specifying
> missing hardware devices but the drivers for those locations appeared ok.
> (drive's b: & c:). besides doing a total restore is there any way to
> reinsert those two missing hardware icons back so I can use them ? thank
> you
> --
> mrtigre