My DVD Drive is not readable...

[Ralph]

I installed Roxio Easy CD Creator the other day and next
thing I know my D: Drive disappears and I can't figure
out how to get it back. My BIOS still shows the DVD rom
drive as connected to the IDE channel. My Hard Drive is
SATA and so it is not on the same IDE chain. I have
tried the following solutions:

-Swapping IDE cables
-Plugging the Drive into a different IDE slot
-Connecting a Different DVD Rom drive that definitely
works to the computer.
-Running windows update
-Uninstalled Roxio
-Reinstalled Drivers
-Reinstalled adaptec stuff
-Reinstalled Service Pack 4
-Reinstalling Windows (this failed due to it not
detecting the cd on start up)

In the device manager it detects my DVD Rom drive but
says drivers are not installed, even if after I reinstall
them. It does not have a yellow exclamation point like
there is an error. On My Computer it shows all my other
drives except for the D drive, I can not connect to it
from DOS either.

Lastly my computer is running super slow at 90-100% cpu
power, most is classified as system...I believe this is
because my computer is searching unsuccessfully for the
missing drive.

Does anyone have any other suggestions or ways to fix
this problem? Thank you...

Ralph

 

[MadDog]

-----Original Message-----
I installed Roxio Easy CD Creator the other day and next
thing I know my D: Drive disappears and I can't figure
out how to get it back. My BIOS still shows the DVD rom
drive as connected to the IDE channel. My Hard Drive is
SATA and so it is not on the same IDE chain. I have
tried the following solutions:

-Swapping IDE cables
-Plugging the Drive into a different IDE slot
-Connecting a Different DVD Rom drive that definitely
works to the computer.
-Running windows update
-Uninstalled Roxio
-Reinstalled Drivers
-Reinstalled adaptec stuff
-Reinstalled Service Pack 4
-Reinstalling Windows (this failed due to it not
detecting the cd on start up)

In the device manager it detects my DVD Rom drive but
says drivers are not installed, even if after I reinstall
them. It does not have a yellow exclamation point like
there is an error. On My Computer it shows all my other
drives except for the D drive, I can not connect to it
from DOS either.

Lastly my computer is running super slow at 90-100% cpu
power, most is classified as system...I believe this is
because my computer is searching unsuccessfully for the
missing drive.

Does anyone have any other suggestions or ways to fix
this problem? Thank you...

Ralph
.

Have you checked to see if your drive is supported by
Roxio ??

MD

 

[Guest]

No, but I uninstalled Roxio, going to get a different
burning program instead. Problem isn't that Roxio won't
read it...it is that the entire computer won't read it
now, and it was working perfectly fine before that. I'm
pretty sure Roxio would support it though. It is a
Pioneer DVD Recorder (DVR 105). I'll check on that
though.

 

[Guest]

Yeah, Roxio supports the drive. Thanks for responding,
btw.

 

[nesredep egrob]

I installed Roxio Easy CD Creator the other day and next

If it is Roxio 6 - did you install the updates - they are important.

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