can't see CD ROM on MY COMPUTER
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Posted 25 November 2007 - 07:34 AM
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Posted 25 November 2007 - 01:51 PM
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Posted 25 November 2007 - 10:12 PM
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Posted 26 November 2007 - 01:31 PM
Sorry to hear about your troubles with your optical devices.
squizzi is right on about having you find out if the drives are recognized at the bios level.
Way to go squizzi!
It is a good indication that the drives are ok and that Windows the OS has lost track of them.
One more thing to check is to go to the Device manager in Windows and see if it lists the optical devices there. If they are there are there any yellow exclamation points or errors? If there are errors you may wish to right click them (the optical drive) and get the properties and see what the error is.
Two fixes I know of for the common reasons of drives not showing up or working properly requires some deletions and/or some registry editing.
One is to delete the secondary ide channel from Device manager, reboot and let Windows find the channel and drives again.
The other fix requires editing the Registry.
So before taking on any registry editing, I would suggest you make a back up using a tool called ERUNT. Here is a link to this tool plus a tutorial.
Erunt Tutorial
I again caution that this is a registry edit and its still your computer and the risk is your own. Should a mistake be made, you will have the registry backup to put you back before the fix.
Please read through before doing.
Fix for missing DVD/CD drives.
Create a text file with NOTEPAD and copy and paste containing the following data exactly as below and SAVE AS FIXCD.REG to your desktop.
You should see 3 boxes on the bottom in NOTEPAD before you ok it to be saved.
1)Filename : fixcd.reg
2)Save as type: all files
3)Encoding: ANSI
If you do not change it from txt type to All files type, then the file will actually be fixcd.reg.txt, this won't accomplish
the desired result
Double click on the FixCD file you just created from off your desktop and say yes to the merge into registry question.
----------------------- Use text after this line, contents of FIXCD.REG ------------------------
REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}] "UpperFilters"=- "LowerFilters"=- [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdr4_2K] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdralw2k] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdudf] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UdfReadr]
------------------------------ Use text before this line --------------------------------
Re-boot computer.
See if cd/dvd function works.
Regards
Kaz.
Edited by kazzoo, 26 November 2007 - 01:38 PM.
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