IDE DVD ROM and Hard Drive no longer detected

I've had Window's Vista Ultimate 64-bit for about a year now and things have
been fine so far. However, today, none of my IDE drives are detected in
Vista. Neither the CD/DVD Rom or IDE Hard Drive are detected. They have just
disappeared. They do not show up in the Device Manager or anywhere else. I
have Window's XP Pro installed as a Dual-Boot backup just in case. XP see's
the drives just fine as well as the BIOS, but for some reason Vista will not.
I've tried a system restore and reinstalling the motherboard driver's but
have had no success. Any other thoughts?

"Orthogonal" <Orthogonal.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've had Window's Vista Ultimate 64-bit for about a year now and things
> have
> been fine so far. However, today, none of my IDE drives are detected in
> Vista. Neither the CD/DVD Rom or IDE Hard Drive are detected. They have
> just
> disappeared. They do not show up in the Device Manager or anywhere else. I
> have Window's XP Pro installed as a Dual-Boot backup just in case. XP
> see's
> the drives just fine as well as the BIOS, but for some reason Vista will
> not.
> I've tried a system restore and reinstalling the motherboard driver's but
> have had no success. Any other thoughts?


Try disconnecting one of the drives and see if either is recognized. You
might want to try a different IDE cable too..


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