CD-RW and DVD-ROM disappeared in Vista Home Premium
It started when I first installed Vista Home Premium. Some days the DVD-ROM
wouldn't show up in Device Manager or My Computer and then some days both the
DVD-Rom and CD-RW wouldn't show. I could restart the computer and they would
show up, but the next day they wouldn't be there again.
Well now they don't show up at all and restarting doesn't help anymore. I
would probably just reformat from my original factory restore disc and just
go with XP Home, but I don't know whether it will even boot from the CD-Rom
with the way Vista has lost the drivers. I also hate to throw away the $159 I
paid for this OS.
If you have any ideas, I would appreciate really appreciate the help.
Re: CD-RW and DVD-ROM disappeared in Vista Home Premium
Hi awhatley,
Just a thought, do you have iTunes installed? There are known problems
with it that cause just this kind of thing in Vista. If so, might
uninstall for a test.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
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Re: CD-RW and DVD-ROM disappeared in Vista Home Premium
awhatley wrote:
> It started when I first installed Vista Home Premium. Some days the DVD-ROM
> wouldn't show up in Device Manager or My Computer and then some days both the
> DVD-Rom and CD-RW wouldn't show. I could restart the computer and they would
> show up, but the next day they wouldn't be there again.
>
> Well now they don't show up at all and restarting doesn't help anymore. I
> would probably just reformat from my original factory restore disc and just
> go with XP Home, but I don't know whether it will even boot from the CD-Rom
> with the way Vista has lost the drivers. I also hate to throw away the $159 I
> paid for this OS.
>
> If you have any ideas, I would appreciate really appreciate the help.
Do this:
1) click the start menu
2) click on "run"
3) type "regedit" and click ok
4) go to string key
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
5) delete "upper filters" and "lower filters in the right side window.
Then reboot and you should be good to go.
Frank
Re: CD-RW and DVD-ROM disappeared in Vista Home Premium
The 1st time this happened, I did a complete Vista Premium re-install, the
2nd time I just did system restores until I got then driver back. Company
(ACER) says that my notifaction was the first time they had heard of this
and so could not give me an answer. So each morning I first ensure a restore
point is created and do not put any data on the C: partition and save msgs I
want to the Data partition, copy data over to an external USB drive. A
complete pain in the butt, but I lost quite abit of important information
with the first re-install. My system told me that the correct driver was
install, but simply not working. Don't blame your computer, welcome to the
Vista Mystery Weirdness Group.
"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"awhatley" <awhatley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2EAC79DD-9056-4899-B137-810D9FE042C4@microsoft.com...
> It started when I first installed Vista Home Premium. Some days the
> DVD-ROM
> wouldn't show up in Device Manager or My Computer and then some days both
> the
> DVD-Rom and CD-RW wouldn't show. I could restart the computer and they
> would
> show up, but the next day they wouldn't be there again.
>
> Well now they don't show up at all and restarting doesn't help anymore. I
> would probably just reformat from my original factory restore disc and
> just
> go with XP Home, but I don't know whether it will even boot from the
> CD-Rom
> with the way Vista has lost the drivers. I also hate to throw away the
> $159 I
> paid for this OS.
>
> If you have any ideas, I would appreciate really appreciate the help.
Re: CD-RW and DVD-ROM disappeared in Vista Home Premium
Neither of those fixes help me. The first (deleting the upper and lower
filters in the registry) didn't help and the second is impossible because the
devices don't even show up in Device Manager. I can click on the question
marks because there are none there.
Thanks anyway.
"Peter Foldes" wrote:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US%3B320553
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> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "awhatley" <awhatley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2EAC79DD-9056-4899-B137-810D9FE042C4@microsoft.com...
> > It started when I first installed Vista Home Premium. Some days the DVD-ROM
> > wouldn't show up in Device Manager or My Computer and then some days both the
> > DVD-Rom and CD-RW wouldn't show. I could restart the computer and they would
> > show up, but the next day they wouldn't be there again.
> >
> > Well now they don't show up at all and restarting doesn't help anymore. I
> > would probably just reformat from my original factory restore disc and just
> > go with XP Home, but I don't know whether it will even boot from the CD-Rom
> > with the way Vista has lost the drivers. I also hate to throw away the $159 I
> > paid for this OS.
> >
> > If you have any ideas, I would appreciate really appreciate the help.
>
Re: CD-RW and DVD-ROM disappeared in Vista Home Premium
Well awhatley,
Those other posts seemed like good ideas to. Are your drives SATA or
PATA? If SATA, make sure that in your BIOS you didn't disable anything
that has to do with PATA. Vista still uses this on boot to recognize
the drives. I know, even though it is a SATA. I read this somewhere,
don't remember where, but the original poster said it worked.
Hope this helps,
Shawn
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"Practice makes perfect, then you reinstall"
Vista 64 Home Premium
1.5 Gig DDR2 533 Mhz (PC4200) RAM
Re: CD-RW and DVD-ROM disappeared in Vista Home Premium
"CowboyKim" wrote
> I've had this problem for many months and it's been going on for years.
> I know that this a Windows Vista forum, I have Windows XP and I see that
> the problem is now carried into Vista. Micorsoft should really fix this
> problem. It started after installing a Windows update when I had Nero
> 6.3 installed. Unfortunately, I don't know what update it was nor
> exactly when it started. I uninstalled Nero and got my drive back. I
> later installed iTunes and the drives disappered again. The above
> mentioned script does work but it disables Nero, iTunes and Roxio as
> the fix. I am running Windows XP SP2 on a Toshiba 1955-s804 laptop.
> After running the script all drives come back but iTunes no longer
> works and must be reinstalled. When that is done the drives disappear
> again. This also happens when I install Nero Burning Rom 6.3 and I have
> heard that it is also the case with Roxio. This is not an iTunes, Nero
> or Roxio issue, this is a Windows issue. Anybody have a fix that will
> let iTunes install and not have the drives disappear?
You should be posting this to an XP newsgroup.
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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