CD&DVD drives vanished

[Guest]

At the begining of December I put a DVD+R into my DVD drive and then a few
minutes later I noticed that both my CD and DVD drives were gone. I went into
System Restore and resoted my computer to an earlier time but nothing
changed. So then I tried installing the XP_CD-DVD-Fix file but still no dice.
I went into BIOS and saw that the drives were there. Then someone suggested
that I go into Safe Mode and find the drives in the Device Manager. The
drives weren't there. I miss my drives. I know that the easy way out would be
to do a System Restore but that isn't even all that easy for me. I have some
20 GB of files that I need to keep and I don't have anything that will store
that much. Please please help me.

 

[abigale_carson]

Hello Mr. Greasy,

Here's a thread that talks extensively about that:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...+~disappeared+xp&rnum=5&#doc_1f2398e21e765620

or, if the link breaks, you can go here:

http://linkfrog.net/dad2

It seems that yours isn't an uncommon problem--Googling the ngs (cd dvd
~disappeared xp) turns up dozens of hits.

Hope this is a start in the right direction...

Abigale

 

[Galen]

In greasy <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

At the begining of December I put a DVD+R into my DVD drive and then
a few minutes later I noticed that both my CD and DVD drives were
gone. I went into System Restore and resoted my computer to an
earlier time but nothing changed. So then I tried installing the
XP_CD-DVD-Fix file but still no dice. I went into BIOS and saw that
the drives were there. Then someone suggested that I go into Safe
Mode and find the drives in the Device Manager. The drives weren't
there. I miss my drives. I know that the easy way out would be to do
a System Restore but that isn't even all that easy for me. I have
some 20 GB of files that I need to keep and I don't have anything
that will store that much. Please please help me.

Missing CD/DVD Drives:
http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/missing_CD-DVD_drives.html

--
Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
http://dts-l.org/
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