CD not recognized

[Guest]

I have a CD at home that isn't "seen" on my PC. For a while, it looked like
the PC didn't want to load mp3 files (or at least not many of them), but now
the CD isn't recognized at all. Maybe I need to reload the driver. Can
anybody help?

 

[Galen]

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

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

I have a CD at home that isn't "seen" on my PC. For a while, it
looked like the PC didn't want to load mp3 files (or at least not
many of them), but now the CD isn't recognized at all. Maybe I need
to reload the driver. Can anybody help?

One CD or many?

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

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Galen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE)
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"We approached the case, you remember, with an absolutely blank mind,
which is always an advantage. We had formed no theories. We were simply
there to observe and to draw inferences from our observations." -
Sherlock Holmes

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi Scott - Just an FYI to suppliment Galen's post.


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