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DVD Drive refusing to show up

BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
edited September 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
I have a HLDS DVD Drive, that was recently transplanted from my old decrepit computer into my shiny new one. I hadn't used it till today(Warhammer Online) and much to my dismay my computer says it does not exist. I checked the Device Manager, which agrees with that. Then I rebooted and checked BIOS which says I do, in fact, have a DVD Drive. So I double-checked my ribbon cable and power cable and the such and everything seemed to be in working order, but it still does not show up.

What do I do?

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  • eternalbleternalbl Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    First thing's first - got any bootable cd's or dvd's just to check the drive is working?

    Secondly, have you ever had some form of easy CD/DVD creator installed?

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    First - Yes. I should have mentioned I have a CD Drive as well, which is having the same problem, but the boot CDs worked fine on both.

    Second - On the last computer, yes, on this one I only have iTunes.

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  • eternalbleternalbl Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Give this a shot?

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/EN-US/

    So when's the last time you used the drives, and whats changed since then?

    And I guess when you checked device manager everything has a proper driver installed that is listed?

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    The last time would be 2-3 weeks ago, and since then I have gotten a whole new rig. New Hard Drives, Graphics Cards, RAM, the whole deal.

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  • eternalbleternalbl Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    This might sound dumb, but with getting a new rig, did you install a fresh copy of windows?

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Yes I did, actually.

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  • eternalbleternalbl Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Alright, lets get to the basics of the problem: what version of windows are you running? Also, you didn't answer my question about device manager, whether everything is properly installed there and whatnot.

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  • BlankspaceBlankspace __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    Whoops sorry, missed that question. Everything is properly installed, outside of the DVD/CD Drives, yeah, they won't show up.

    and I'm running XP.

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  • eternalbleternalbl Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    so far everything I'm finding is saying to remove those upper and lower filters from the registry like that knowledge base link, and thats actually also why I asked about Easy CD creator, but I guess it happens with a few burning programs. I'd seriously suggest that to start

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  • Nakatomi2010Nakatomi2010 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah, the solution mentioned in the link above will most likely solve the problem...

    If you look in the device manager and you see the drives there then you know they'reworking, the filters are just messed up...

    Slick the link, follow the instructions...

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