DVD drive gone...

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Hulk

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Chronicles of Riddick broke my laptop.


I inserted the DVD into my laptop and it wanted me to install some "Interactual dvd player" or some crap, it froze so I took it out.

Now my DVD drive is gone (it's not under "my computer").

I have two questions:

  1. How do I fix this?
  2. Is CoR any good?
 
i would also open up computer management(which has device manager in it) and check the drives from there, it may have just lost it's drive letter for some odd reason.
 
You'll also need to identify if it's an IDE drive or SATA. If it's IDE uninstall the IDE controller inside the device manager and reboot the system. This typically takes 2 or 3 reboots to fully finish.
 
windows Vista?

Start regeditt

go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE >SYSTEM>currentcontrolset>control>class

click on
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002 BE10318}


then look for any of these in the pane on the right
UPPERFILTERS
LOWERFILTERS
UPPERFILTERS.bak
LOWERFILTERS.bak

If you find any of those delete them by right clicking on them and choose delete. Reboot and you should be good to go.

this happens on one of my vista rigs almost any time I install anthing that even remotely interacts with the DVD rom drive....itunes, burning software etc.
 
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