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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:14 am
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Somehow my OS lost sight of the CD drive device (nor can it detect the new DVD writer device). I have NO CD DEVICE FOLDER OR FILES IN 'MY COMPUTER' DEVICE MGR. 'HARDWARE' FOLDER. Even the 6 bootable floppy disk system restore method did not restore the CD folder & files, neither did my 'back in time' system restore method (problem pre-exists current 'earliest restore point'). All connections for new device are the same. The old device was reconnected - same problem.

Windows XP FAILS TO FIND my CD device AND DEVICE MGR has NO FOLDER FOR CD/DVD drive.

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Sparda




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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:42 am
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Does to BIOS find the CD/DVD drives. (Please stop saying folder, they're directorys, you are also saying folder when they are not even directorys, device manager displays every thing in/as drop downlists.)

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 12:24 pm
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Give this a try:

1. Click on START button, the click on RUN.

2. Enter REGEDIT and press Enter.

3. When REGEDIT starts, open up the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/
{4D36E965-E325 -11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.

4. After clicking on {4D36E965-E325 -11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} you should see two settings on the right-hand side:
"Upperfilters"
"Lowerfilters"
Click on each of them, press DELETE and click YES.

Or you can download http://users.adelphia.net/~abraxas/dl/FiltersRemove.reg (this reg file) to do the same thing.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 4:53 am
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I deleted those files, but nothing happened. My CD Drive is still not there. What was supposed to happen?
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:25 am
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They where not files, they where registary entries. Does the CD drive register with the BIOS? (I'v alredy asked this, but you seemed to not read my post)
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:45 pm
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Sparda, thanks for your post. Sorry, but just because I didn't mention anything about BIOS in my post doesn't mean I have not read your post. It was just easier to follow Abraxas instructions. How do I check, if the CD drive registers with the BIOS. Thanks.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:00 pm
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You can tell if the CDdrive registered with the BIOS by looking at the post screen when you tunr the computer on, it should look some thing like this:

http://biorobots.cwru.edu/server/howto/buildcomp/post/post.jpg
 

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