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    DV4000: no Secondary IDE? Lost DVDRW drive...

    Discussion in 'HP' started by mitebbots, Aug 17, 2006.

  1. mitebbots

    mitebbots Notebook Enthusiast

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    After some registry issues and successful restore I have no DVDRW access on this DV4170. Possible the Quickplay feature is getting in the way maybe? Even in Safe Mode I only see the Primary IDE controller. I can't boot to my favorite diagnotic CD without the drive, so far all windows diagnostics show only a Primary Controller. CDROM is listed in the boot order, and the drive has power - it spins/lights up.
     
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    brianstretch Notebook Virtuoso

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    Your best bet is to uninstall the Secondary IDE Channel in Device Manager, reboot, and let WinXP redetect it.
     
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    there is not Secondary controller listed. Trying to figure out how to reinstall windows without CDROM support.

    Also this thing has some sort of special partiton for the Quckplay feature. I do have the origianl restore disk, but can not use it. Do not think this machine wil boot from USB, I could try an external USB CDROM drive in that case.
     
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