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nurmi

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Since: Mar 28, 2006
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:56 pm
Post subject: Lost my DVD and CD drives
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I partitioned an external hard drive with Partition Magix 7 but failed to
make a note of the old drive letters, Drive Mapper found no changes. When I
requested up-dates from Norton on Magix I got the following response: Windows
Installer is not correctly installed.
Hardware Wizard reports: A driver (service) for this device has been
disabled. An alternative Driver may be providing this funtionality. (code32)
Norton Disk Doctor reports: The operating system, or another process,
currently has exclusive access to this drive or some files.
That could be Vista which I installed on a second hard drive? Vista has no
problems finding the two ROM drives.
I hope there is a way out of this? Thanks
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an old - old guy who tries to keep up!

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Quidagis

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Since: Mar 19, 2007
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:23 am
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It worked for me too, but in Windows Vista.

Thanks a lot!

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Kevin Nelson

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Since: Apr 10, 2007
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:34 am
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"Quidagis" wrote:

> It worked for me too, but in Windows Vista.
>
> Thanks a lot!

What can be done if it did not work? It is not in my registry and I have
tried numerous methods to get my cd and dvd back. I did a clean install of XP
from 2000, (cd and dvd had to be there for the process to work), and when
done both drives were gone. I have tried the registry change, the update
driver method from the Windows knowledgebase, there was a vba script from
Kelly's XP a to z, downloaded and installed the drivers from the
manufacturer's site and checked them against the hardware list for
compatibility and still nothing.

Can you say wit's end?

Please does anyone have a way to get these drives back?

Samsung cdrw sw-248
H-L Data Storate dvd rom gdr-8162B

Thanks
Kevin
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