CD drives dissapeared!!! OMG what to do???

[demon-eater]

I installed a new Cd burner everything was going okay i wanted to change the driver for the burner tho cause it wasn't the latest one or sumthin i can't remember now... anyway now i can't use my burner or regular cd both aren't showing up in my computer and ive tried everything.. when i go into system their there with a ! next to them, i uninstalled them, restart, says its installing new hardware needs to restart, restart, then nothing their still not their.. hope sombody can help me of else im gonna format.. ugh i have soooo much to replace i don't wanna do that..

[Shadow ÒÓ]

cd roms don't have drivers. It's possible you lost the controller, but installing drivers wouldn't have any effect.


Have you tried removing the controller and rebooting?

[Yodums]

Don't format.

Shut off your computer.

See if you have spare IDE cables plug it in and make sure the power is in and then try it.

It could be faulty IDE cables, or something or power is not in.

[demon-eater]

been their done that... changed the cable doesn't work...."Your registry might be corrupted. (Code 19)" i get that when i go into system and right clikc on the device....

[turd]

couple simple things i have seen work in sit like yours

u might have tried these, might not work but

unplug the ide cable, boot up run, add remove new hardware and let win search for new hardware. it may detect what was there and offer you the option to remove them, do it if found. then if removed or not shut down, reset your cable, cdr's and reboot and see what u got

also try changing the master slave setup make (e) ( f ) and what was (f ) (e)

also try making both jumpers to CS and see what u get, all these things could "trick" win into seeing and reconfiguring your devices, but as u know sometimes the only cure is the fdisk one, good luck

[demon-eater]

the only think i have yet to try now is changin the jumpers... then the dreaded fdisk... but thank goodness i just got a 40gig so i can move all my "stuff" to that one....

[demon-eater]

okay now ive tried everythin literally.. even windows 2k trouble shooting.. now im gonna see about reverting back to a previous registry.. i dunno if i can do it but it beats formatting