CD-ROM DISAPPEARED

[Peter]

My CD-ROM drive has disappeared!

It isn't in My Computer or in WIndows Explorer. If I put in a CD, it usually (but not always) recognizes it in Explorer.

The system says it is installed and working; I have uninstalled and reinstalled the driver.

What is the mechanism by which Windows recognizes and lists a removable storage device in My Computer (the zip and a drivers are there and the a and cdrom are combined in a single unit).

p

 

[Kaylene aka Taurarian]

Win XP Fixes: Restore CD/DVD Drives to Explorer
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_cd_dvd_fix.htm


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553
CD-ROM Drive or DVD-ROM Drive Missing After You Install Windows XP



My CD-ROM drive has disappeared!

It isn't in My Computer or in WIndows Explorer. If I put in a CD, it usually
(but not always) recognizes it in Explorer.

The system says it is installed and working; I have uninstalled and reinstalled
the driver.

What is the mechanism by which Windows recognizes and lists a removable storage
device in My Computer (the zip and a drivers are there and the a and cdrom are
combined in a single unit).

p

 

[Peter]

Tried them both and neither worked.

I don't know for sure but this may have happend at about the time I
installed Palm Pilot software. I have since uninstalled it (I couldn't get
it to sync properly with Outlook). No, I couldn't get back to an earlier
"restore point".

Anyhow, I hate to have to reinstall Windows XP and hope that somebody else
has a software fix for getting the CD-rom back.

p

 

[Peter]

Found the problem. For whatever reason, the appropriate drive letter was
unchecked as a drive option. Found it with a little program called tweakui.


p

 

[Taurarian]

Thanks for posting back, it may assist someone else with
a similar problem.
Kaylene

 

[roger]

Hi Peter,

Go to

http://www.dougknox.com/

Select 'Windows Utilies' and scroll down to 'Restore CD/DVD drives to
Windows Explorer.'

You can also try this:
Download and install a tiny patch from the following URL to delete
upper and
lower filters from the Windows registry:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_cd_dvd_fix.vbs



Good luck