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Lloydb39
August 26th, 2012, 10:19 PM
Anybody want to take a crack at this one? I have a Dell Dimension 4600. Installed two drives from a Dimension 3100, running Windows XP. Installed two CD/DVD burners. Both were working previously. Got it up and running and then set up a dual boot with Ubuntu 11.10. Everything fine EXCEPT the machine will NOT recognize the CD drives. They don't show in Windows Device Manager, they don't show in Ubuntu. They don't even show in the BIOS setup. At one point I had one drive working, after doing a Regedit trick I found online, but it disappeared again and hasn't come back. Both jumpers are set correctly. I updated BIOS with the most recent version. I even changed the ribbon cable. No go. Can anyone suggest any reason why a computer would refuse to recognize two perfectly good drives? It beats me. (An external CD drive works just fine via USB)