Hi, Mribaul.
First of all, "My Computer" is a WinXP term which does not exist in Vista
except as a "Junction" that points legacy applications to the correct
location in Vista. In Vista, the term is "Computer". (There are similar
junctions for "My Pictures", "My Documents", etc., pointing to
C:\Users\Mribaul\Documents, for example.)
Do your CD/DVD drives show up in Disk Management? Many users have not yet
found this very useful utility. You can get to it in several ways; the
shortest is to click Start, type "diskmgmt.msc" (without quotes), and press
Enter. Or you can click Start | Control Panel | Administrative Tools |
Computer Management | Disk Management. Either way, you'll need to furnish
Administrator credentials.
Disk Management is the tool to manage many kinds of devices, hard drives,
optical drives, network drives, USB flash drives, cameras and card readers,
just about any kind of device that gets assigned a "drive" letter. We can
let Vista assign a new letter each time we log on or plug in a new device,
or we can use Disk Management to (semi-)permanently assign the letter we
want to each device. If we don't assign letters, our CD drive may be Drive
E: this time and Drive G: next time after we've plugged in a couple of USB
thumb drives. The devices will not show up in Computer until a letter has
been assigned, either automatically or specifically in Disk Management.
Tell us what Disk Management says about your optical drives and then we can
go from there.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
(e-mail address removed)
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)