DVD drive disappeared

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Hi
I have just come home from work and got on my 'puter, and my dvd drive is missing. It was there and working this morning, and though it's still physically connected (and I can open it/close it and the light blinks and it spins) it does not show up in the my computer window, nor will it autoplay
I have disconnected (and booted), reconnected it (and booted) and still it does not show up. I know it was working this morning as I was playing NwN online and it reads the disk before loading the game. I have used it in this fashion for the past 2 years
My computer does not find it with the "add new hardware" or hardware management options, it's like the computer refuses to acknowlege it's existance (even though it worked this morning because I played the game for a bit before going to work)
I'm stumped, anyone got any ideas?
 
VaporWare said:
I have just come home from work and got on my 'puter, and my DVD
drive is missing. It was there and working this morning, and though
it's still physically connected (and I can open it/close it and the
light blinks and it spins) it does not show up in the my computer
window, nor will it autoplay. I have disconnected (and booted),
reconnected it (and booted) and still it does not show up. I know it
was working this morning as I was playing NwN online and it reads the
disk before loading the game. I have used it in this fashion for the
past 2 years.
My computer does not find it with the "add new hardware" or hardware
management options, it's like the computer refuses to acknowledge it's
existence (even though it worked this morning because I played the
game for a bit before going to work).
I'm stumped, anyone got any ideas?
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Wild hunch - try this:

1) Log on with Administrative Privileges

2) Open the Registry Editor:
a) Go to Start then select Run.
b) Type regedit and click OK.

3) Backup you registry by:
a) Highlight My Computer by clicking on it once.
b) Click File (Windows XP) or Registry (Windows 2000), then Export
Registry File.
c) Select export range All; to ensure your entire registry is backed up
completely.
d) Select where you would like to save this backup, name the File, and
Click on the SAVE button.

4) Remove the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values:
a) Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
b) Highlight this key by left clicking on it once.
c) On the right hand side delete the values Upperfilters and Lowerfilters.

5) Restart your computer.


You might ALSO/INSTEAD go to:
http://www.dougknox.com/

Select 'Windows Utilies' and scroll down to 'Restore CD/DVD drives to
Windows Explorer.'

Perhaps his utility will do the trick. =)
 
Ok, tried the utility, it didn't work

Backed up my registry, but when I looked at the right hand side I didn't see anything named "Upperfilters" nor "Lowerfilters". Am I missing something here? Thanks for the help so far, but could you clarify a bit. Am I missing those filters already, or are they named something else, or do I not know some sort of terminology?
 
Both my DVD and CDR drives disappeared yesterday. I have
spent the last 24 hours trying to get them back and was
just about to give up when I came across this advice. I
went to www.dougknox.com and ran the utility as
suggested. It worked and I am very happy. Thanks.
 
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