Cd drive troubles
 

alright, just bought a new drive, i had 2, one is still good so i dint touch it, but my old burner sucked so i just unplugged the 2 wires that were going into that & pluged them into the new drive. now, it isent showing either of them. it has detected it but when i check the details it shows
[quote:cec0b] Currently, this hardware device is not connected to the computer. (Code 45)[/quote:cec0b] TEHN HOW THE HELL IS IT DETECTING IT?! eek: any ideas?

Check jumpers.

got it solved. my registry is full. now im trying to find a way to clean out my registry.

after deleting about 300 registry entries it stopped giving mte the full registry error. i still cant see the drives though.

OS ? Drive type (manufacturer) ? Status (Ms, Sl, CaSel) ? Cabling type ?
Topology of drives associated with cabling ? I need to know these things
if I am to be of any assistance...

ok its my registry thats the problem. iv deleted over 500 entries in the registry with various cleaners but it still gives me the "registry size is too big so further entries will be ignored" error when starting. ovisly cleaning it dosent work, anyone know how to expand the size of my registry?

um i know one ugly way though, reformatting.

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