Vista x64 did a System restore, now my physical & virtual DVD drives do not work!

[Satsumomo]

Vista x64 did a System restore, now my physical & virtual DVD drives do not work!

Hey guys! Well Vista decided to corrupt my registry after I powered my computer down (Too weird, maybe my HDD is failing?) and anyways, it decided to do a system restore. Now my DVD drive shows up in the Device manager with a Yellow exclamation sign, and Daemon Tools doesn't work either (I get a SCSI CD Rom drive in Device manager, not working as well). I tried uninstalling Daemon tools and reinstalling it, to see if that would help and it didn't. I disconnected the DVD drive and reconnected it, Vista found it, but after it started installing it, it just says "Installation for this device has failed".

I'm thinking it's a registry problem? What can I do?

 

[Satsumomo]

I tried reinstalling the Intel Chipset drivers, it didn't work.

 

[Mr.Guvernment]

it did a restore on it's own ? didnt know it could do that...

did try to uninstall dameon tools and other similar apps?

 

[Satsumomo]

Sorta, it told me to run the "Repair windows" option from the install disk, and while it did so, it said it was going to perform a system restore, and that I would lose some configuration settings, blah blah.

I did uninstall Daemon tools, rebooted and nothing happened. I reinstalled Daemon tools and still the problem persisted.

 

[citronym]

Certainly sounds like a software issue to me. Out of curiosity, is your physical optical an IDE or SATA drive?

 

[Satsumomo]

It is a SATA drive.

 

[citronym]

Here's what I would do. First, make sure your BIOS is set to boot from cd-rom, and stick a bootable disc in there, any bootable disc. Restart it and see if it boots. If it seems to boot from the cd-rom just fine, that pins down a Windows issue. If it doesn't boot, then try a different SATA cable and try a different SATA port (I know you said you disconnected it, but did you plug it back into the same channel?).

 

[Satsumomo]

Here's what I would do. First, make sure your BIOS is set to boot from cd-rom, and stick a bootable disc in there, any bootable disc. Restart it and see if it boots. If it seems to boot from the cd-rom just fine, that pins down a Windows issue. If it doesn't boot, then try a different SATA cable and try a different SATA port (I know you said you disconnected it, but did you plug it back into the same channel?).

Good idea! The BIOS does recognize the drive, but I haven't tried having it try to boot. I reconnected it into the same channel, no good, then I tried another channel, same result..


Edit: Ok, I rebooted and yes, the system did try to boot from DVD when I had my Vista DVD inserted.

 

[citronym]

Did it boot the Vista disc normally? If so...

I typically do not have patience to sort out Windows issues such as this, and often resort to a reinstall (albeit far and few between). There is however likely to be a way to fix it without going through all that. I will stand down.

 

[Satsumomo]

No problem, I just ordered 2 WD Blacks, I plan on installing Vista on a Raid setup there, so I should just wait it out until they arrive Thanks!