Every once in a while, a CD/DVD drive will not appear in
the device list. I have 2 CD-R/W drives and 1 DVD-R/W
drive in my computer. For some reason, 2 of the drives do
not appear in My Computer and are inaccessible from any
part of the computer. I have also tried to find them in
device manager, but they do not appear as a listed
device. I have also tried to scan for new hardware but
with no success.

Help!!

Thank you in advance for your assistance

See Alex Nichol's fix for the 'disappearing' CD drive problem.
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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com

"Chris W" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:db6301c43b5b$d9773ef0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Every once in a while, a CD/DVD drive will not appear in
> the device list. I have 2 CD-R/W drives and 1 DVD-R/W
> drive in my computer. For some reason, 2 of the drives do
> not appear in My Computer and are inaccessible from any
> part of the computer. I have also tried to find them in
> device manager, but they do not appear as a listed
> device. I have also tried to scan for new hardware but
> with no success.
>
> Help!!
>
> Thank you in advance for your assistance

Cari,

I reviewed everything at Alex Nichol's site and still have a strange
problem...........when trying to load a program that uses multiple CD's,
I can only open the CD door twice to insert new disks, and then it is
unavailable. Right-clicking on the CD-Drive icon in My Computer and
trying "eject" does nothing, but upon reboot, I get two more tries
before it craps out again.

The newest drive is a Plextor ATAPI IDE CD-DVD-R 52x16x52 drive that I
just bought to replace a generic drive that was doing the same thing.

I have the jumpers set just like the previous one; as a Master, not a
Slave, on secondary IDE channel.

All drivers are up-to-date on WXP Pro SP1 machine with Gigabyte GA-8S648
Mobo with latest Bios revision, Intel 3.06GHz cpu, 1GB of DDR-400
RAM, Quantum Fireball 74 GB ATA100 HDD on primary channel, two Ultra 160
SCSI HDD's on Adaptec 29160 Controller, GeForce 5950 Ultra video card,
Antec 400 watt power supply.

Ideas?

Steve

Cari (MS-MVP) wrote:

> See Alex Nichol's fix for the 'disappearing' CD drive problem.