A drive disappeared

Posted: 01-21-2004, 08:02 PM

Simon

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I have recently upgraded to XP from ME and on doing so I
encountered a couple of virus's etc.... having dealt with
them, I have now lost my A drive. It no longer shows on
the explorer page and if I try to re-add it by using the
add hardware feature I recieve a message stating "Windows
cannot load device driver for this hardware, the driver
may be corrupted or missing (Code 39)

Help, how can I fix this as I have tried to upgrade the
driver but can't find one... Oh and what is a code 39? is
this bad!!!!!

Can anyone help? cheers

A drive disappeared

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zulfi

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A drive disappeared

Posted: 01-22-2004, 12:16 AM

enable the drive in BIOS first

if it is enabled in bios and still u dont find it then
check the cable connections, try making the drive as first
boot device and check if it access or asks for a diskette
to boot from, if it asks for a diskette, then there is not
problem with it, there must be some misconfigurations or
settings problem with the drive,

zulfi

>-----Original Message-----
>I have recently upgraded to XP from ME and on doing so I
>encountered a couple of virus's etc.... having dealt with
>them, I have now lost my A drive. It no longer shows on
>the explorer page and if I try to re-add it by using the
>add hardware feature I recieve a message stating "Windows
>cannot load device driver for this hardware, the driver
>may be corrupted or missing (Code 39)
>
>Help, how can I fix this as I have tried to upgrade the
>driver but can't find one... Oh and what is a code 39? is
>this bad!!!!!
>
>Can anyone help? cheers
>.
>

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