This is weird

[Just.some.guy]

Ok, I have an Emachine T2482...and it has a cdrw as well as a dvd drive...2
drives. Everything was cool with making copies, until last night. I was
doing something else when I noticed that the cdrw drive was not listed in
*My computer* The cdrw tray works, but windows wasn't recognizing it. I
looked under hardware in my device manager, and lo and behold it's there,
but there's a red x through it. I tried to enable it, but it says windows
couldn't fix it. It also said that devices are normally disabled when they
are not working or there's a conflict. The only thing I added yesterday was
a Logitech keyboard's software. Do you think *that* might have something to
do with it?

 

[Sister Mary]

Ok, I have an Emachine T2482...and it has a cdrw as well as a dvd
drive...2 drives. Everything was cool with making copies, until last
night. I was doing something else when I noticed that the cdrw drive was
not listed in *My computer* The cdrw tray works, but windows wasn't
recognizing it. I looked under hardware in my device manager, and lo and
behold it's there, but there's a red x through it. I tried to enable it,
but it says windows couldn't fix it. It also said that devices are
normally disabled when they are not working or there's a conflict. The
only thing I added yesterday was a Logitech keyboard's software. Do you
think *that* might have something to do with it?

It could well have died, but the first thing to try:
In Device Manager, click to Uninstall the troublesome drive
Reboot, and upon reboot Windows will ReInstall it.

 

[RalfG]

Did you uninstall your previous multimedia keyboard software first?

 

[Just.some.guy]

It could well have died, but the first thing to try:
In Device Manager, click to Uninstall the troublesome drive
Reboot, and upon reboot Windows will ReInstall it.

Thank you...that did it.

 

[Just.some.guy]

Did you uninstall your previous multimedia keyboard software first?

Yes, then I did what Sister Mary suggested and it's there now. Thank you
both.

 

[Sister Mary]

Thank you...that did it.

Thanks for the feedback.