DVD drive uninstalled??

[Steve]

Greetings:

I'm running windows Vista on an HP Pavilion. Recently, I went to use my DVD
ROM and discovered the icon was missing from "My computer"......

This happened before with XP, and with XP I removed the appropriate Upper
and Lower filters in the registry, restarted, and all was well.

I tried this with vista and the upper and lower filters were not present.

I ran a system profile and found my drive (HL DT ST DVD RAM GH IOL) was
listed as uninstalled.

Can anyone help with this problem? I would be most grateful for any
nfo. -Steve

 

[Badger]

Try right click on computer, select manage, select disk management to see if
it shows up.

 

[Badger]

Again right click computer and select manage, select device manager and disk
drives to see if the DVD drive shows a down arrow meaning it is disabled.
If it is, right click it and enable it.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

When you start the computer, go into BIOS (hardware) setup mode. Does the
drive show up there? If not it may have a loose connector or may have
failed.

 

[Badger]

It sounds like the drive may have failed,
If you have access to an older computer running XP you might try it there.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Did you Upgrade to Vista from XP recently ?