CD Drive missing

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I have a good friend who just lost his CD Drive from Explorer. He has
Windows 2000. Anybody have an idea how I can get this restored for him? The
CD lights up when one is loaded, but won't autoplay or show up. I have
posted this in the Windows 2000 Newsgroup with no responses. I had also
posted this in this group earlier when I though he had XP, but come to find
out he has 2000. Thanks in advance.....
 
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I have a good friend who just lost his CD Drive from Explorer. He has
Windows 2000. Anybody have an idea how I can get this restored for him? The
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Boot with a bootdisk that has cdrom drivers on it. See if you can read
files on a cd afterwards. If not, then the drive is bad.
 
If the CD lights up when loaded, but no indication or auto load: This
indicates that the unit is getting power, but no data transfer...I have had
this problem many times.

On occasion it was from a bad connector cable, but it was usually due to a
bad drive. The CD drives don’t last forever, and it seems that the newer,
faster drives with higher speeds and tolerances will poop out quicker than
older ones. Constant use, or a low quality from the start will certainly
accelerate matters.

Try another cable first, if that don’t work then buy a new drive. If it
wasn’t the drive, return it. If it was, problem solved.

I’m more hardware oriented, so my opinion will differ from the “code jocksâ€,
but I’ll put money that it’s a hardware issue (statistically speakin’)
 
Does not matter. Just follow the KB as posted by Armando and it will work . You will get back your CD. Works on 2000,XP,2003.

Fix the Upper and Lower Filters as stated in the KB. You did not need to have Easy CD Creator.

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Peter

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Hi Phil - Here's more of the same for you but with a little additional
information:

See here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];270008 It
may not sound like it applies but take the steps outlined there to delete
the Upper and Lower Filters.

You can also use this reg file to handle these deletes (it takes care of
deleting some other things which can cause problems as well):
http://www.aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip This is
pretty much the "standard" fix for this type of issue. Backup first so that
you can recover if there are problems (there aren't usually, BTW).

It's recommended by Compaq/HP that you run FilterFixer also when this occurs
to recreate the correct entries, here:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp27501-28000/sp27949.exe Instructions
here: ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp27501-28000/sp27949.txt
 
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