Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

LOL, I was just messing with you. Like I said, I can't remember the last time I saw 1 [well, not a new 1 anyway], so was surprised that any company would ship 1 with a new product.

Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

well I'm glad we sorted that out ;) :cool:

- I was going to tell dilly if you were nasty to me, anyway :angel::D


of course, regarding your profile tag line, you can put it off to tomorrow, if you want ;)

Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

Wahoooooo!! Sorted now. After trying uninstalling the IDE stuff in device manager & nothing happening I opened up my pc & checked the dvd-rw & it was set to master, i also checked my hd's & my dvd-rom & there were all on cable select, so I changed the hd's to master & dvd drives to slave & booting in to windows they all reinstalled themselves & now the drive shows up :D, finally got there. Thank for all your help guys, I thought twice about coming here for help as I hadn't found any other information that I thought useful anywhere on the net & was just going to settle for another format, good job I came here before I did. I will remember to come here first should I have anymore problems in the future :p: Now I can finally backup my hd without any problems for the backup.

Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

good stuff - just make sure that you can actually launch your backup in the event of a hard drive failing.

Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

I'm using Acronis True Image Home Version 10 & I have a secure zone setup on my main hd & also have the boot cd, so I think I'm covered from all angles with that :). Do you use backup software, if so which? I've tried a few over the years, but had many problems with them not backing up everything I select, corrupting the backups they make etc.

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He'd probably just make me make him an extra cup of coffee tomorrow as pennance. :angel: :D

Put what [specifically, I mean] off until tomorrow? :confused:

I said uninstall them, then reinstall the drivers, then reboot, not just uninstall. ;) If you didn't reinstall the IDE drivers after uninstalling them, you probably should. :)

Anyway, glad you got it sorted. :)

Norton/Symantec Ghost. I'm not a fan of their security software, but Ghost is good.

Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

Did someone say coffee? :)

Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

I did reinstall them :p: just failed to mention it then, lol. But anyway I had no joy with it, just reinstalled everything else bar the dvd-rw. I was using Ghost & I have to say I liked it, but for me it was system heavy. I was using version 12.

Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

procrastinate now? - maybe we should delay that ;)

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I am trying Paragon 'hard disk manager' - too new to report on, yet, for me, but nothing bad to say so far :)

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alien42...ts-roflmao.jpg

Your like 1 of those cats than can hear a can opener being used, regardless of how much other noise is going on, or how quiet the can opener is. :D

I thought you might have, but thought it best to mention, just in case. :)

I haven't used Ghost in a while, not because I think there's anything wrong with it, just because I'm lazy about backing up. The last version [6 I think] I used was booted from a DOS boot disk, but was very useful. I do know Dilly's had good things to say about more recent versions though. As for being resource heavy, I don't think you have to keep it [the newer versions I mean] running all the time, you can probably just do it manually when you want to.

Oh, right. I didn't realise it was a reference to that, as it's been set to that for ages. :)

Oh, yeah, Paragon. I use their Partition Manager 7, which can copy a partition or whole drive to another partition or drive, so I guess that does backup too. Not a bad prog. :)

Re: DVD-RW Drive Has Disappeared From Windows But Not BIOS
 

I have seen that around, I will have to visit there website & take a look at it. At the moment from the few backups I have done with Acronis, it seem's decent, but only time will tell :confused:. Back to watching Bottom on Dave