Disasppearing CD-Rom

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Bruce Lawrence

Can somebody tell me what is going on with my computer?
I just tried to put in a CD and found out that my D: is gone and there is no
power to it.
The computer has been going slower but nothing new has been done today and
it happened in the last three hours. Anyone heard of that.
I have been having some error messages in the recent past but ran AVG, and
Panda and scannow, I have ZoneAlarm firewall too. It also will not let me
run check disk, it goes through the motions and i check the boxes and reboot
and nothing just goes to desktop no check.
Help Please
You are great people!
Bruce
 
Goto http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
See the second "problem" (read the caveats)
Run the provided registry patch

That should fix your problem (basically, a filter driver is missing or
non-operational, the registry patch will delete the filter drivers
references for your cdrom(s))


Basically, the reg file from above carries out the steps displayed at this
website


CD-ROM Drive or DVD-ROM Drive Missing After You Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553

CD-ROM Access Is Missing and Messages Cite Error Code 31, Code 32, Code 19,
or Code 39 After You Remove Easy CD Creator in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060


(It'll fix code 41 errors too as per the contents of the last kb article)
 
Bruce said:
Can somebody tell me what is going on with my computer?
I just tried to put in a CD and found out that my D: is gone and
there is no power to it.
The computer has been going slower but nothing new has been done
today and it happened in the last three hours. Anyone heard of that.
I have been having some error messages in the recent past but ran
AVG, and Panda and scannow, I have ZoneAlarm firewall too. It also
will not let me run check disk, it goes through the motions and i
check the boxes and reboot and nothing just goes to desktop no check.
Help Please
You are great people!
Bruce
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Do you have the new ZA 5.0 installed. Many problems with this new version
including not allowing CHKDSK to run on the boot drive. Completely
un-install and then re-install ZA 4.5.
 
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