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Problem with CD Drives
I have an old IBM Aptiva (1998 model), and both my CD-ROM drive and CD-RW drive have disappeared from the system. The drive letters are no longer in "My computer", nor in "Device manager". It happened when I attempted to activate DMA access for my CD-ROM drive.
I went into device manager, followed the usual procedure to enable DMA by checking the box, then was prompted to restart before changes were activated. I restarted, but upon re-booting DMA still was not enabled. I did it over again, restarted, still not enabled. I went to check the DMA box again, but this time before restarting I double checked to see if the box remained enabled. It wasn't, so I checked it. Only this time, instead of prompting me to restart, it told me to "Shut down". I shut down, and re-booted, and ever since both CD-Drives disappeared. I've tried replaced the IDE cables, updated drivers, still no go.
The CD-Rom drive was included with PC when I bought it, the CD-RW drive is a 24/10/40 TDK VeloCD. I've previously had a 12X TDK VeloCD with DMA enabled on this same system with no problems. I'm running on Win98.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to resolve this, I'd appreciate it.
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