CD/DVD Drive missing - tried everything!

Not even sure what might of caused it because I'm not totally sure when it
happened... must of been between this morning to just a hour ago (like 10
hours); and in that time I've installed quite a bit of software.

It's just that problem that a few people have, where the CD/DVD drives
suddenly go missing from explorer. It's fine and well in device manager, says
its up to date, enabled etc. Tried literally everything (read about 20
different threads with the same problem). Tried deleting the upperfilters
(lowerfilters wasn't there), restarting...no luck. Tried the regedit patch
that I downloaded, also this other patch that some guy made to fix it. Tried
uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers, obviously. Literally tried all of the
suggested fixes on the forum, more than once, and nothing.

Almost at the point where I'm ready to just reinstall XP, not too happy with
Vista so far anyway...probably because I need more ram, but I'm a poor
bastard right now. :(

Help me out...anybody! >.<

Navieko wrote:
> Not even sure what might of caused it because I'm not totally sure when it
> happened... must of been between this morning to just a hour ago (like 10
> hours); and in that time I've installed quite a bit of software...

I've never had that problem, thankfully, but I've read that legacy
programs such DVD-burning/authoring, multimedia-editing, etc., or
even iTunes can produce this complication. Sometimes just removing
the offending program can fix it, but sometimes you may need to do
the upper/lower filters trick after the offending program is removed.

I know it's a pain to undo what you just spent hours doing, but that is
what I would do in your position. After backing up your current system,
of course!

try to boot from the windows installation CD, if it does then it´s not
an issue with the optical drive. (you might need to check the boot
priority on the BIOS).
you might need to reseat your DVD drive too, and try a system restore.


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motarola2

Had Windows XP SP2 Installed on C Drive.
Added another HDD F Drive
Installed Windows Vista Home Premium on F Drive as Dual Boot
Have 2 Optical drives (D & E) as well ie C D E and F in total.
After 2 days D drive disappeared from Device Manager in Vista.
Booted into Windows XP and all there again.

Therefore its not a hardware problem. All drives work perfectly in XP.

I have scoured these and other forums for days with no solutions only temp
fixes.

Its clear to me that Vista has a serious bug in its programming and XP has
not.

Also Internet downloads got slower and slower with Vista. Boot back to XP
and it rocks along with downloads full speed. Yet again its Vista programming
thats buggy. I'm using the same computer with both Operating systems so I can
compare.

I have now formatted F Drive (Vista gone) and then replaced the boot section
of C to remove dual boot screen and Vista is gone until SP1 arrives.





"motarola2" wrote:

>
> try to boot from the windows installation CD, if it does then it´s not
> an issue with the optical drive. (you might need to check the boot
> priority on the BIOS).
> you might need to reseat your DVD drive too, and try a system restore.
>
>
> --
> motarola2
>

yeah, windows vista only gives problems, at least at this time.
what you could try is a system restore, or use the winRE that comes in
the installation CD to try to repair that.
but i would recomend you to check with the manufacturer if you can get
chipset drivers for your motherboard.
windows vista comes with default chipset drivers that not always work.


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motarola2

[piklu12345]

Try These Steps:

It is strongly recommended that you backup your registry, before performing these steps. If not sure, please do not perform these steps and contact a system engg.

1. Click the Start Button/Windows Icon (start menu).

2. Either type "regedit" or click Run and type regedit.

NOTE: User Account Control may ask for permission to continue. Select Continue

This will then load the Registry Editor.

3. In Registry Editor, navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

NOTE: You will know you are in the right place because the Status Bar at the bottom of Registry Editor will show the above in the status bar.

Remember, you're looking for 4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318

There are other entries with only 1, 2 digit differences - so don't get confused!

3. In the right hand pane, find and click UpperFilters.

4. Right click and select Delete. If you're not confident using the right click, then select the Edit menu, then click Delete.

5. In the right hand pane, find and click LowerFilters.

6. Right click and select Delete. If you're not confident using the right click, then select the Edit menu, then click Delete.

7. Exit Registry Editor.

Now restart your computer. You should have your DVD/CD Rom again.

***************************************

The easiest way is already mentioned in the previous posts. You can
check the hardware functionality, try to boot using windows xp or vista
cd. If it boots then the cd drive is working fine. If not then go ahead
& buy a new one.


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tanuj_chadha

Yes.... That happened to me too and the following helped me as well. I have
printed out this message for safe keeps should it happen again

"piklu12345" <piklu12345.3aup7e@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
news:piklu12345.3aup7e@DoNotSpam.com...
>
> Try These Steps:
>
> It is strongly recommended that you backup your registry, before
> performing these steps. If not sure, please do not perform these steps
> and contact a system engg.
>
> 1. Click the Start Button/Windows Icon (start menu).
>
> 2. Either type "regedit" or click Run and type regedit.
>
> NOTE: User Account Control may ask for permission to continue. Select
> Continue
>
> This will then load the Registry Editor.
>
> 3. In Registry Editor, navigate to:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
>
> NOTE: You will know you are in the right place because the Status Bar
> at the bottom of Registry Editor will show the above in the status
> bar.
>
> Remember, you're looking for 4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318
>
> There are other entries with only 1, 2 digit differences - so don't get
> confused!
>
> 3. In the right hand pane, find and click UpperFilters.
>
> 4. Right click and select Delete. If you're not confident using the
> right click, then select the Edit menu, then click Delete.
>
> 5. In the right hand pane, find and click LowerFilters.
>
> 6. Right click and select Delete. If you're not confident using the
> right click, then select the Edit menu, then click Delete.
>
> 7. Exit Registry Editor.
>
> Now restart your computer. You should have your DVD/CD Rom again.
>
> ***************************************
>
>
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[intelligentos]

This solution didn't work for me.

I have tryed to :

1. uninstall some windows updates
2. uninstall nero 6
3. change the registry

The system is :

Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook E8410
Windows Vista Sp2

Next step : reinstall Vista

Any other suggestions ?