Two CD drives; one no longer being recognised

[madmondeo]

My pc has two drives; D & E. After my pc was reformatted it is only recognising drive D. Any suggestions as to what could be happening? - or not as the case maybe!

[ChuckFickens]

when you say reformatted was it taken away to have it done?

if so good chance one of the cables has just worked loose during transport (they don't like being moved sometimes)

Take the side/top of and just make sure the gray ribbon cable that plugs into the back of the drive thats not working is fully pushed in

[ACtheTROLL]

chuck ...I like your twisted logic ... ;-)

i'll have �1 to win

[ChuckFickens]

Lost count of the amount of times I was sent out to repair machines that had just been delivered and it's was just cables coming loose in transit :)

[madmondeo]

had the case off and the plug is pushed on. (the one with all the teeth.)

[wildwood]

Do you mean two physical hard drives or two partitions on one drive, and what happened to the C:/ drive?
Formatting a hard drive also deleted the partitions.

[wildwood]

Oops, just notice you meant the CD drives.

[ACtheTROLL]

when you plugged in the big toothy one
did you check the other little chunky one (power)?

last two pikkies http://www.fonerbooks.com/r_cd.htm

[ChuckFickens]

and also follow the cable back to the board end and make sure it's pushed in full at that end.