"Brian Gaff (Sofa)" wrote in message
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First make sure its a known good disc?

Often the stepper motor gets stuck or if its one of those driven by a little belt they
stretch as well and the thing does not rotate.
Brian

If its enabled in the BIOS then drive a: should show
in Windows Explorer regardless of whether the drive
actually works just so long as a signal is detected
in the POST on startup/reboot. If its enabled in
the BIOS and no signal is detected as a result of the
drive being totally dead, disconnected, whatever
then it should show a message "Drive a: not
detected/present" or similar on startup.



michael adams

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