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Windows not recognising CD/DVD drives

  • 11-07-2004 9:08pm
    #1
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭


    Dont know whats happened but i tried installing a game, and neither of my cd or dvd drives are showing up in windows. Theyre not being recognised at all, and not showing up any cd/dvd i put in the drives. Any ideas what could be causing this?
    Ive went to system-> hardware profiles and its showing a yellow exclamation mark as it does when there is a problem.....

    Thanks


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  • #2
    kevpatts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭kevpatts


    happens to me all the time and restarting sorts it out. installed any new hardware recently?


  • #3
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭L5


    restarting didnt fix it for me :(

    No ,no new hardware recently.....ill try a registry repair program, as it says its a problem with the registry settings for the drives.


  • #4
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭L5


    I still havent got this working :(
    And i cant reinstall the drivers as the drives wont recognise discs...
    Help?


  • #5
    Lemming
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,149 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    Do you have an Audigy Platinum sound card by any chance? I recall reinstalling win2k pro on my machine a while back, and one of the audigy software/driver (can't recall which) updates that i'd downloaded caused my system to loose it's DVD & CD-RW drive.

    Ended up just re-installing again (minus that particular patch)


  • #6
    kevpatts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 206 ✭✭kevpatts


    strangely enough, I have an audigy platinum too. must be a bug in the driver installation program.


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  • #7
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭L5


    Fixed!, never doubt the power of Sytem Restore :)


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