Thank you for responding however your assumption that one or more hardware
items may have gone bad in my case is incorrect. If a hardware items had gone
bad I would NOT have been able to reinstall the OS. Therefore there may be a
driver conflict; if you have the time to research in other forums there will
be numerous listings indicating problems with DVD/CD-ROM and SATA drives that
have stopped responding.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> If formatting and reinstalling does not resolve the issue, then you have a
> hardware problem. Either the drive, the controller cable, or the motherboard
> socket is bad. Reseating may help.
>
> It is not unusual to have two listings of controller cables in Device
> Manager if more than one cable is in use on the system. There would be one
> listing for each. It'd only be an issue if the controller driver wasn't
> loading properly, and that'd be indicated by a !bang in front of the device.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
> My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]
>
> "SpyCatcher" <onespycatcher********.com> wrote in message
> news:DBFA3AAB-711E-4B34-96BE-72EBD6A9AE82@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >I have the same problem in Vista X32 the DVD-Rom disappears and or will not
> > respond when a disc is in the drive; formatting and reinstalling the OS
> > does
> > not solve the problem.
> >
> > Unfortunately the fix that Rick Rogers listed DOES NOT WORK or FIX the
> > PROBLEM.
> >
> > What I believe to be the problem is a conflict in the "storage controller
> > drivers"; in the device manager I have 2 listed "ITE IT8212 ATA RAID
> > Controller and Microsoft iSCSI Initiator".
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas how to fix or disable MS initiator driver please
> > share
> > your experience.
> >
> > Sincerely,
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>
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