Posted this in the Gold Room, but I realized this might be a better place for it... My computer won't recognize my CD drives. When I go into "My Computer" there's no trace of the D: (DVD/CD-ROM) or E: (CD-RW) drives, just A:, C: and any removable drives that happen to be in the computer at the time. The CD drives themselves still spin, it's just that the computer doesn't notice them. Also, when I put a CD in, nothing happens. I've tried pressing F2 during the bootup to enter the BIOS of the computer, but once in, I've got no idea what to do. I would do this registry tweak that some people have said... but at the slightest suggestion of editing the registry, my dad pulls a nutty. Thanks in advance!
try checking in your hardware manager (under configuration screen -> system) if you can see them under dvd/cdroms. If they're there, delete them and reboot. Crude, but could be effective. You could also try powering down, disconnecting the drives, powering up again, start windows (so it starts without drives) then shut down again, reconnect the drives and restart. Both methods would hopefully make windows aware of the fact that you've got two drives. One cause of this could be a recently installed virtual cdrom program - you could try uninstalling it and rebooting.
I'd need to know which version of Windows you're running in order to give any suggestions more detailed than Zenow's.
Uninstall the CD/DVD drive under Device Manager. And then restart the computer. It will find it and install it upon rebooting. Some CD drives made by Samsung are famous for being inflicted with this hiccup.
Alrighty, I go into the device manager, and it doesn't say anything about CD drives. The closest thing I get to that is "Disk drives" and the only thing I see under "Disk Drives" is something cryptically named "WDC WD800BB-75CAA0" Is that the name for the CD drives, or is that just my C: drive or something? If the computer recognizes the drives, they should be properly labeled, right? Anyway, I'm'a provide a screenshot to be clearer about things:
It could be that your CD/DVD drive happens to be connected to your "Secondary IDE Channel" which happens to be disabled in that screenshot. Try enabling the Secondary IDE Channel in Device Manager and/or in the BIOS. [WDC WD800BB-75CAA0 is your Western Digital hard drive]
Ah ah ah, that's not a disabled logo. That's a warning logo. Double-click on that entry and it might tell you what's up.
It says it can't start the Secondary IDE Channel because the information about it in the registry is flawed... now what?
Holy fuck, I think you've actually come across something that I haven't. Can you post the exact message?
Since the link broke for the last screenshot, here it is: And Kyle (and anyone else who can/will help), here's the exact message:
First try reinstalling your CD recording program. If that doesn't work, open up the registry and delete the values for "Upperfilter" and "Lowerfilter", which can be found under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{long string of hex digits between curly braces} Then restart. If that doesn't work, reinstall your CD recording software again.
