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Vista Not Detecting CD Drive's
- Thread starter Jatin
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The usual method is:
Remove the device in Device Manager and reboot, which helps fix this problem a little over half the time in my experience resolving it.
The rest of the time you follow the instructions on this Microsoft Knowledge Base page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us
Here's a Visual Basic script that does the same stuff, tracked it down when doing a search for resolving this issue:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_cd_dvd_fix.vbs
(some people are leery of executing such .vbs files; that's fine. I'm not going to vouch for the validity of it, I just read about 150 posts of people that have/had that "disappearing CD/DVD drive" issue and they all used that Visual Basic script to "fix" it, soooo... make sure your AV software is updated and go at it, or use Microsoft's directions - in the end you get the same result)
Hope this helps...
Remove the device in Device Manager and reboot, which helps fix this problem a little over half the time in my experience resolving it.
The rest of the time you follow the instructions on this Microsoft Knowledge Base page:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us
Here's a Visual Basic script that does the same stuff, tracked it down when doing a search for resolving this issue:
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_cd_dvd_fix.vbs
(some people are leery of executing such .vbs files; that's fine. I'm not going to vouch for the validity of it, I just read about 150 posts of people that have/had that "disappearing CD/DVD drive" issue and they all used that Visual Basic script to "fix" it, soooo... make sure your AV software is updated and go at it, or use Microsoft's directions - in the end you get the same result)
Hope this helps...
heh heh...
That 'Microsoft way' has been working since the early days of Windows XP.
By the way, it's unlikely to have resulted from installing your printer. 'Losing' optical drives in this way usually results from incompatible burning software, too many burning apps conflicting, virtual drive software etc etc...
That 'Microsoft way' has been working since the early days of Windows XP.
By the way, it's unlikely to have resulted from installing your printer. 'Losing' optical drives in this way usually results from incompatible burning software, too many burning apps conflicting, virtual drive software etc etc...