CD/DVD Drive missing - tried everything!

[Guest]

Not even sure what might of caused it because I'm not totally sure when it
happened... must of been between this morning to just a hour ago (like 10
hours); and in that time I've installed quite a bit of software.

It's just that problem that a few people have, where the CD/DVD drives
suddenly go missing from explorer. It's fine and well in device manager, says
its up to date, enabled etc. Tried literally everything (read about 20
different threads with the same problem). Tried deleting the upperfilters
(lowerfilters wasn't there), restarting...no luck. Tried the regedit patch
that I downloaded, also this other patch that some guy made to fix it. Tried
uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers, obviously. Literally tried all of the
suggested fixes on the forum, more than once, and nothing.

Almost at the point where I'm ready to just reinstall XP, not too happy with
Vista so far anyway...probably because I need more ram, but I'm a poor
bastard right now.

Help me out...anybody! >.<

 

[Don]

Not even sure what might of caused it because I'm not totally sure when it
happened... must of been between this morning to just a hour ago (like 10
hours); and in that time I've installed quite a bit of software...

I've never had that problem, thankfully, but I've read that legacy
programs such DVD-burning/authoring, multimedia-editing, etc., or
even iTunes can produce this complication. Sometimes just removing
the offending program can fix it, but sometimes you may need to do
the upper/lower filters trick after the offending program is removed.

I know it's a pain to undo what you just spent hours doing, but that is
what I would do in your position. After backing up your current system,
of course!

 

[Peter Foldes]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;320553
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

 

[Rock]

Not even sure what might of caused it because I'm not totally sure when it
happened... must of been between this morning to just a hour ago (like 10
hours); and in that time I've installed quite a bit of software.

It's just that problem that a few people have, where the CD/DVD drives
suddenly go missing from explorer. It's fine and well in device manager,
says
its up to date, enabled etc. Tried literally everything (read about 20
different threads with the same problem). Tried deleting the upperfilters
(lowerfilters wasn't there), restarting...no luck. Tried the regedit patch
that I downloaded, also this other patch that some guy made to fix it.
Tried
uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers, obviously. Literally tried all of
the
suggested fixes on the forum, more than once, and nothing.

Almost at the point where I'm ready to just reinstall XP, not too happy
with
Vista so far anyway...probably because I need more ram, but I'm a poor
bastard right now.

Help me out...anybody! >.<

Have you by any chance used a registry cleaner? I'm not telling you to do
it but I have seen several posts were using one caused a problem like you
have.

 

[Guest]

Had Windows XP SP2 Installed on C Drive.
Added another HDD F Drive
Installed Windows Vista Home Premium on F Drive as Dual Boot
Have 2 Optical drives (D & E) as well ie C D E and F in total.
After 2 days D drive disappeared from Device Manager in Vista.
Booted into Windows XP and all there again.

Therefore its not a hardware problem. All drives work perfectly in XP.

I have scoured these and other forums for days with no solutions only temp
fixes.

Its clear to me that Vista has a serious bug in its programming and XP has
not.

Also Internet downloads got slower and slower with Vista. Boot back to XP
and it rocks along with downloads full speed. Yet again its Vista programming
thats buggy. I'm using the same computer with both Operating systems so I can
compare.

I have now formatted F Drive (Vista gone) and then replaced the boot section
of C to remove dual boot screen and Vista is gone until SP1 arrives.

 

[Hockey Guy Jason]

Yes.... That happened to me too and the following helped me as well. I have
printed out this message for safe keeps should it happen again

 

[Peter Foldes]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060