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Originally Posted by banjo

Sorry, but yes both a\drives are not working on their respective machines, same fault on both no lights no head chatter and even with a disc in I get the error message that their is no disc in the drive, I have checked the data/power connectors and all seems OK.

The strange thing is the a:\ drive still shows up in my computer even when it is not connected in any way ?

Obviously a BIOS or a motherboard controller issue then, have you checked whether the BIOS can see it?