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Hi RC,
I have now tried an "in place upgrade" but that failed to too. As a result
of all my failed attempts I concluded ( just a wild guess!) that there must
be a driver conflict causing this problem so decided to see what effect
there was from removing applications one by one and re-booting. Eventually,
I found that removing Alcohol 120 fixed the problem. Subseqeuntly, a visit
to the forums on the Alcohol web site revealed that this is is registered as
a problem when Adaptec products are present. I discovered that the key is
to install Alcohol 120 AFTER everything else is installed. During the
Alcohol installation process up pops a message that Windows has found a new
SCSI device (i.e. Alcohol has over written the driver but Windows then
identifies the SCSI controller again and re-instals the drivers). The
Alcohol installation process then pauses whilst the SCSI driver
re-installation takes place and then completes it's installation.
Subseqeuntly everything works fine.
So, many thanks to everyone who has offered help and I hope my experiences
and solution may be of value to others.
"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
news:eD0fEpg4EHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi, Stan.
>
> Adaptec SCSI? Me, too. But my only remaining SCSI device is my IBM HD (a
> humongous <g> 9 GB model), which is my boot device. My first several
> CD-ROMs were SCSI, but both current DVDs are IDE models.
>
> My first reaction when I saw your mention of SCSI was that you might have
> the CD disabled in the SCSI BIOS, but then I remembered that you earlier
> said that it appears during POST, so there goes that idea. Besides, if I
> read your last post correctly, your CD is an IDE device, not SCSI.
>
> The floppy is not supposed to show up in Disk Management, but there should
> be two lines in Device Manager, one for the FDD controller and one for the
> drive.
>
> The CD/DVD definitely should show up in both Device Manager and Disk
> Management. Sometimes a new HDD needs to be "initialized", but this
> should not apply to the CD/DVD. Sometimes I'm startled when I open Disk
> Management and don't see all of my CDs, but then I realize that I just
> need to scroll down. With my many HD volumes, flash drive, etc., the
> Graphical View sometimes is too large to show without scrolling.
>
> If you must reinstall, you might want to do an "in-place upgrade". This
> will reinstall WinXP itself, but preserve your existing applications and
> data. If your WinXP CD-ROM does not include SP2, you'll need to add that
> after the reinstallation. Still, this should cut your reinstallation time
> from a full day to less than a half-day, maybe a couple of hours.
> Microsoft's instructions are in this KB article:
> How to perform an in-place upgrade (reinstallation) of Windows XP
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q315341
>
> Keep us posted on your progress. I haven't seen this problem reported
> before.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "Stan Kay" <stan.kay@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:etu35Hg4EHA.3416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Hi RC,
>>
>> Neither the floppy nor the CD/DVD show up in Disk Management and I do
>> not, and have never, used TweakUI. But thank you for the suggestion. I
>> have also been told via another source that Nero often conflicts with
>> Adaptec to cause exactly this problem. However, altough I do have
>> Adaptec products (SCSI controller and drives only) I do not have Nero and
>> so that cannot be the cause of the problem either.
>>
>> I shall continue to search and will post back a solution if I find one.
>> However, a complete re-install takes about a day (operating system and
>> all software etc) so if I have no solution by tomorrow then I will
>> perform a clean instal of Windows.
>>
>>
>>
>> "R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
>> news:%23iKxnCg4EHA.1976@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi, Stan.
>>>
>>> Does the CD/DVD drive show up in Disk Management?
>>>
>>> Are you using TweakUI? That offers a setting to not display specific
>>> drives; some users (including myself) have used this and then forgotten
>>> we did it. <blush> They should still show up in Device Manager,
>>> though.
>>>
>>> RC
>>>
>>> "Stan Kay" <stan.kay@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>>> news:OmSG06f4EHA.3416@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>> That was the first thing I did when Windows failed to show the floppy
>>>> and the DVD drive. Bios shows that both exist and both appear
>>>> correctly during POST. Moreover, if I insert a bootable floppy of a
>>>> bootable CD/DVD then both work during boot up!
>>>>
>>>> In essence, the problems is with Windows XP Pro SP2 not recognising
>>>> that the removable drives exist. The real interesting thing is that
>>>> both devices are present in Windows registry but Windows still does not
>>>> recognise them!
>>>>
>>>> "Yves Leclerc" <yleclercNOSPAM@maysys.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:OI0fsme4EHA.2568@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Check in the BIOS set up to see if the floppy drive is enabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also check to see if the IDE/SATA channel is enabled in the BIOS so
>>>>> that XP can find the DVD drive.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Stan Kay" <stan.kay@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:%230yB5Md4EHA.3092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>I have just upgraded my Win XP Pro installation to SP2 and everything
>>>>>>worked fine after re-booting until I noticed that Explorer does not
>>>>>>show my floppy drive or DVD drive nor do these devices appear in
>>>>>>Device Manager. I have tried rebooting to see if the system
>>>>>>identifies them but this does not work. I have even done an iupgrade
>>>>>>re-instal of windows but that does not help either.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can anyone please offer some suggestions before I resort to clean
>>>>>> instal?
>
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