Although the power supply adequacy is a consideration, you indicate that
both optical drives, the hard drive and all other computer components are
now operating. Although the cause of the problem would be nice to know, the
current problem seems to be strictly with the manner of operation of the "E"
drive. And since it works in some ways, the hardware is probably OK and the
problem rests with software.

If you have Tweak UI (free from Microsoft) on your computer, open it and
check "my computer/drives" to make sure the OS is set to see the "E" drive.
Check to see if the BIOS sees the "E" drive. Check to see if, from the MSDOS
prompt, you can access "E" drive. Check that "device manager" sees and does
not indicate any problems with the "E" drive. These actions may lead to a
correction or at least better define the problem.

Hope this helps solve your problem.

Tom Mayer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Macaspac" <[log in to unmask]>


I think the reason for your Drive E; not showing on My Computer after the
shutdown is that your power supply cannot provide enough power to make the
drives working. I had this situation before. I had one hard drive before and
one cd/dvd rom dirve. My friend asked me to have a backup of his files on my
computer. I mounted his hard drive inside my system and then restarted.
Afterwards, I opened my computer but to our surprise, his hard drive wasn't
present. We turned it off and then removed the power supply pointing to my
cd/dvd rom drive. When we turned it back on, his hard drive was then present
when we opened My Computer. I think you would consider that issue of yours
as just a power supply issue.

  Hope this helps.

  Patrick

Ryan Small <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
  Good Day,

I recently installed a new sound card (CL SB Audigy 2 ZS-Platinum) and
everything was working fine. I have a TSSTcorp CDW/DVD TS-H492A and TDK CDRW
321040X. (D: and E: rspectively) I was looking through some back-up cd-rw. I
placed one in the D: drive and one in the E: drive to see what I had on
them. All of a sudden, literaly in a blink of an eye, both drives were not
recognizable. I went to My Computer and both drives weren't showing. I shut
down my comp and rebooted. Now only the D: drvive is there. I can play music
and game cd's in the E: drive but, I can't open any CR-RW's with it. How can
I get the E: drive to be displayed again in 'My Computer'?

(comp specs)
MB: Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Chip: AMD Athlon XP2000+
Memory: 512KB
OS: Windows 2000 Pro
VGA: M
SI Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440(AGP8X)- 128MB

Thank you.
R. Small

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