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Windows not recognizing optical drives

Asked by TechGeezer in Windows XP Operating System, Personal Computers

Tags: Windows XP pro sp2

I am building a system for a friend. I furnished a new mobo, cpu, RAM, & video card. The balance of components came from his previous system.

I connected his HD to another system, copped data from his HD to the host. Then I did a  complete reformat. Installed XP Pro. sp2 , then put data back on HD along with new install of windows. Put HD back into his system. It boots up & runs great except it will not recognize the optical drives!

Drives were IDE, I tried them 1 at a time, one was defective as it would begin to read a disk then the drawer would open each time disk began to spin. Disconnected and went to next one , could not get it to show up in "disk management" tried another IDE drive from another machine, same result, tried 2 new ribbon cables, checked all connections, changed power supplies. Installed a PCI/IDE adapter, installed a new sata drive. Rebooted multiple times.

I am unable to install mobo drivers as system will not read a disk or recognize any optical drive under any combination that I tried!
I guess I need the help of the EXPERTS!

I have run out of Ideas, any suggestions or solutions would be GREATLY APPRECIATED........
 
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