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Postby aviationwiz on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:26 pm

I'm at a loss. Just randomly, I go into Nero to burn a DVD, no drive found, so I go into My Computer... nothing there. When I go into the device manager, it says this for the status of my drives:

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)


Anyone have a clue WTF happened and what to do to fix this?
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Postby Scour on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:30 pm

Hello!

Maybe you deinstall the IDE-driver and reinstall it?
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Postby aviationwiz on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:40 pm

Nope, that didn't do it.
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Postby ETP on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:50 pm

Are your IDE channels present in your BIOS?

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Postby ETP on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:50 pm

Next , are your drives present in your bios?

BQ 1640 BSOB
NEC 4550 1.6T
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Pioneer 109/A09 158
Pioneer 110/A10 1.39
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Postby ETP on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:53 pm

Next! R&R drives as well as safe boot and remove useless hardware in device manager.

Next! Update mobo drivers as well as reflash your bios with current FW!

BQ 1640 BSOB
NEC 4550 1.6T
Plextor 716a 1.09
Pioneer 109/A09 158
Pioneer 110/A10 1.39
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Postby aviationwiz on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:53 pm

Yup, it's in the BIOS. I've never heard of something like this before...
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Postby Scour on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:55 pm

ETP wrote:Next , are your drives present in your bios?


I think tey are because you can´t deinstall in the device-manager the IDE-drivers.

Maybe a HD-failure, corrupt sectors?

Or try to re-install windows in Repair Mode:

Boot from CD, selcet first Windows install then press "R" when selected partition with Windows
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Postby ETP on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:56 pm

How old is your computer?

BQ 1640 BSOB
NEC 4550 1.6T
Plextor 716a 1.09
Pioneer 109/A09 158
Pioneer 110/A10 1.39
Liteon 5005
Sony 875P & 333ES
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Postby ETP on Wed Sep 21, 2005 5:57 pm

Scour has a good point! Time to reload windows/reformat hd!

BQ 1640 BSOB
NEC 4550 1.6T
Plextor 716a 1.09
Pioneer 109/A09 158
Pioneer 110/A10 1.39
Liteon 5005
Sony 875P & 333ES
Liteon 5005
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Two Dell 8400s & 9100 with SATA HDs
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Postby ETP on Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:11 pm

PS/ sometimes we lose our way when we get old! LOL

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Pioneer 109/A09 158
Pioneer 110/A10 1.39
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Postby Ian on Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:16 pm

Wiz, I stole em out of your computer when you were at school. I replaced them with cardboard copies so you wouldn't notice.

I'm kidding. No idea what's wrong with your computer. You sure your school's techs didn't look at it? :wink:
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Postby aviationwiz on Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:09 pm

I had to reformat it, :(

Got the really important stuff off of it though and onto a USB Flash Drive of mine.

For some reason, when I put in the XP install disk and did what you normally do to get to the automatic repair thing, it just didn't give me the option.
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Postby Gen-An on Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:26 pm

http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3 ... 8&x=12&y=8

That probably would have solved the problem without the need for a reformat. Nevermind the fact that it mentions Easy CD Creator, as I had iTunes do the same thing to my drives, and that was a quick fix.
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Postby hoxlund on Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:59 am

haha doesn't it feel good to format windows hard drive

i think my record in a day for one computer is 4 times

not that i HAD to, because i didn't like the O/S for a couple of hours then changed it

im now back to win xp x32, after a week or so in x64 is just starts lockin up

i think its cause winamp doesn't fully support it, and that is interacting with trillian

just a guess though
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Postby dolphinius_rex on Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:35 am

my record for WinOS installs in a day is at least 4, or maybe 5 times. That's only happend to me twice that I can remember though. Once was recently when I was having HDD problems (partial corruption) and the other time was a long time ago, but basically the same reasons.
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Postby flash on Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:25 pm

I have been having the same problem recently.
I just finished doing a fresh install of XP Pro and then
my DVD Rom disappeared!
It happened after installing and updating the newest
Nero updates (6 Ultra)!
I disabled InCD using msconfig and that seemed to have
helped but the problem is has happened twice in the last week
or so since disableing InCD.
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Postby hoxlund on Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:08 am

just choose not to install incd

also isn't incd on its own nero package?
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Postby ETP on Sun Sep 25, 2005 8:27 am

Sonic DLA is even worse!

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