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O.P. [?] DVD drive won't work with Vista
Ok, sounds simple; it's not compatible... So let me explain :p

I was updating to Vista from XP to try and stop my friend from downloading spyware. After updating he calls me the next day to say his DVD drive isn't working. I go up and try out my drive from my dead PC that is definitely compatible with Vista. It still doesn't work. I assumed it would be the ribbon cable (it could have caught in one of the fans) but I couldn't test it straight away because the HDD is SATA2. So I come home and get one of my IDE cables, but it still doesn't work, not even showing up in the BIOS using the auto-detect.

So I decided to roll him back to XP to see if it is just a Vista issue (which I highly doubt anyway). Obviously though, he doesn't have a DVD drive now to install from.

So, question 1: Any ideas what would suddenly cause it to stop registering drives

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question 2: just in case, how can I get it back to XP (I don't care about losing data by the way, there is not much on there at this point
<Eljay> "Problems encountered: shit blew up" :zippy:
09-10-2008 02:59 PM
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[?] DVD drive won't work with Vista - by Spunky on 09-10-2008 at 02:59 PM
RE: [?] DVD drive won't work with Vista - by Menthix on 09-10-2008 at 03:16 PM
RE: [?] DVD drive won't work with Vista - by Spunky on 09-10-2008 at 05:23 PM
RE: [?] DVD drive won't work with Vista - by matty on 09-10-2008 at 05:27 PM
RE: [?] DVD drive won't work with Vista - by Spunky on 09-10-2008 at 05:30 PM
RE: [?] DVD drive won't work with Vista - by Adeptus on 09-11-2008 at 01:21 AM
RE: [?] DVD drive won't work with Vista - by Spunky on 09-11-2008 at 01:37 AM
RE: [?] DVD drive won't work with Vista - by Jarrod on 09-11-2008 at 07:29 AM


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