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scotjam · 21-04-2008

Hi

I'm a newbie to this forum.

I have an ACER 660 laptop and I recently replaced the broken internal CDROM combo with an internal QSI SBW-242. The install went fine, but for some strange reason, XP Pro doesn't recognise the drive until I eject the drive completely out of the drive bay and r- insert it. Only then does XP recognise the drive and allow me to use it.

Now I could make do with this nuisance, but the problem is impossible to bear when I want to rebuild the OS of my laptop using the manufacturers recovery CD's. As you can guess, whenever I boot up my laptop the CDROM drive is never recognised. So, I can not use the recovery CD's

Any suggestions please?

many thanks
scotjam

21-04-2008	#1 (permalink)
scotjam New on Forum Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 2	QSI SBW-242 not recognised till XP boots <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> Hi I'm a newbie to this forum. I have an ACER 660 laptop and I recently replaced the broken internal CDROM combo with an internal QSI SBW-242. The install went fine, but for some strange reason, XP Pro doesn't recognise the drive until I eject the drive completely out of the drive bay and r- insert it. Only then does XP recognise the drive and allow me to use it. Now I could make do with this nuisance, but the problem is impossible to bear when I want to rebuild the OS of my laptop using the manufacturers recovery CD's. As you can guess, whenever I boot up my laptop the CDROM drive is never recognised. So, I can not use the recovery CD's Any suggestions please? many thanks scotjam