re: CD drive missing
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 9:52 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(659 messages posted)
Open the Device Manager to check whether the CD device is being detected at all.
To open the Device Manager -
START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM > DEVICE MANAGER
In Device Manager, if it shows up as faulty (i.e. with an exclamation mark against
it), delete it -
1. Click on the "+" sign next to 'CD-ROM'.
2. Click on the actual (named) CD-ROM.
3. Then click "Remove".
If there are any other entries with an exclamation mark against them (which indicates
a fault), remove those entries also.
Then reboot. Windows will automatically re-install the correct drivers in the course
of the reboot. You may have to point the install wizard to the location of the proper
driver, which is probably one of these locations -
C:\WINDOWS
C:\WINDOWS\INF
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS
Alternatively, this type of fault can be caused by a driver conflict with a driver
for a device that's not in use. Such drivers only show up in Safe Mode, which shows
all installed drivers (only those for the devices currently attached to the system
are shown while in normal mode).
So if the solution above doesn't cure the fault, reboot into SAFE mode (press F5
or F8 on startup). Then open the Device Manager again, and (using the same procedure
as explained above) delete all "ghost" entries seen there, i.e. those entries that
ONLY show up in Safe Mode. Then reboot again, into normal mode.
Ed
On Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 7:15 am, Rafael Martinez wrote:
>hello All,
>My problem is with a cd drive, i recently reinstall my computer back to factory
settings,
>when i did the drive was there, i loaded all software. Then iam not sure how but
>all of a sudden my drive (E) is no longer showing under my computer. Can anyone
provide
>a solution to get it back? thanks for your time and help
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- CD drive missing (Rafael Martinez: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 7:15 am)
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