 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Windows Forum / Windows XP / Performance and Maintainance / June 2007Lost my DVD and CD drives
I partitioned an external hard drive with Partition Magix 7 but failed to make a note of the old drive letters, Drive Mapper found no changes. When I requested up-dates from Norton on Magix I got the following response: Windows Installer is not correctly installed. Hardware Wizard reports: A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternative Driver may be providing this funtionality. (code32) Norton Disk Doctor reports: The operating system, or another process, currently has exclusive access to this drive or some files. That could be Vista which I installed on a second hard drive? Vista has no problems finding the two ROM drives. I hope there is a way out of this? Thanks  Signaturean old - old guy who tries to keep up! My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: > I partitioned an external hard drive with Partition Magix 7 but > failed to make a note of the old drive letters, Drive Mapper found no [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > has no problems finding the two ROM drives. > I hope there is a way out of this? Thanks See if this fixes it: Missing CD/DVD Drives: http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/missing_CD-DVD_drives.html SignatureGalen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE) http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/ "At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes Galen, thank you for the time you took. It was not wasted. It wont come as a surprise to you, it did to me. It worked. Thank you big time! Signaturean old - old guy who tries to keep up! > My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Missing CD/DVD Drives: > http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/missing_CD-DVD_drives.html My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: > Galen, thank you for the time you took. It was not wasted. It wont > come as a surprise to you, it did to me. It worked. Thank you big > time! I am glad that it did fix it and grateful that you took a moment to let us know that it worked. *grins* Sometimes we have to guess and/or wonder if the fix suggested did work as the question asker doesn't always return to let us know. Either way, I hope you find the site handy. I have some "free" time and my webmaster does as well so we'll be putting up tons of new content shortly hopefully. SignatureGalen - MS MVP - Windows (Shell/User & IE) http://dts-l.org/ http://kgiii.info/ "At present I am, as you know, fairly busy, but I propose to devote my declining years to the composition of a textbook which shall focus the whole art of detection into one volume." - Sherlock Holmes It worked for me too, but in Windows Vista. Thanks a lot! > It worked for me too, but in Windows Vista. > > Thanks a lot! What can be done if it did not work? It is not in my registry and I have tried numerous methods to get my cd and dvd back. I did a clean install of XP from 2000, (cd and dvd had to be there for the process to work), and when done both drives were gone. I have tried the registry change, the update driver method from the Windows knowledgebase, there was a vba script from Kelly's XP a to z, downloaded and installed the drivers from the manufacturer's site and checked them against the hardware list for compatibility and still nothing. Can you say wit's end? Please does anyone have a way to get these drives back? Samsung cdrw sw-248 H-L Data Storate dvd rom gdr-8162B Thanks Kevin Hi Galen, Read your post and my situation is similar; Dvd does not recognize disc. When I click on the drive it instructs me to put a disc into the player. But nothing happens. Everything seems fine. Drive recognized and healthy. I don't know what it could be other than a registry problem. When I went in as u instructed Numi I found that my lower filter was already misssing. I don't know what else might be gone as well. The upper ws there. I deleted it and restarted the computer. No luck. Neither did windows restore those keys on reboot' Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've been dealing with this for a few weeks now. SignatureThanks / Mikerrr > My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Missing CD/DVD Drives: > http://kgiii.info/windows/XP/general/missing_CD-DVD_drives.html |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.