D and E drive problems

Thy-Tempest · 11-23-2005, 09:45 PM

Hello everyone,

This is a first time post on these forums, but I have posted on quite a few gaming forums, so I should fare allright.

On to my problem, which I have been neglecting for about a month now.
My disc drives (D and E), wont recognize that I put in a new disc unless I restart the computer. At first I just found this annoying, but now that I am trying to install a game that requires 3 install discs, it is quickly becoming an anger supplier. I have 2 drives, but if I get the content from the first 2, I have to restart for the comp to relalize that I already put the 3rd one in. This obviously is no good because it backs out of my installer. I am fairly tech savvy, but not the best. I have tried to find a manual refresh/reload, but was unsucessful. Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
T

Edit: Forgot to mention, I am running XP on a Dell Dimension 4100 (Pent 3)

dai · 11-24-2005, 12:43 PM

see if anything here helps
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q218617/

11-23-2005, 09:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
Thy-Tempest Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1 OS: XP	D and E drive problems Hello everyone, This is a first time post on these forums, but I have posted on quite a few gaming forums, so I should fare allright. On to my problem, which I have been neglecting for about a month now. My disc drives (D and E), wont recognize that I put in a new disc unless I restart the computer. At first I just found this annoying, but now that I am trying to install a game that requires 3 install discs, it is quickly becoming an anger supplier. I have 2 drives, but if I get the content from the first 2, I have to restart for the comp to relalize that I already put the 3rd one in. This obviously is no good because it backs out of my installer. I am fairly tech savvy, but not the best. I have tried to find a manual refresh/reload, but was unsucessful. Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated. Thanks T Edit: Forgot to mention, I am running XP on a Dell Dimension 4100 (Pent 3)

11-24-2005, 12:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
dai Manager, Hardware Forums Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: west australia Posts: 56,630 OS: win 7 32x 64x rtm	see if anything here helps http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q218617/ __________________