DVD drive gone awol

[Steve]

Greetings:

I'm running windows Vista on an HP Pavilion. Recently, I went to use my DVD
ROM and discovered the icon was missing from "My computer"......

This happened before with XP, and with XP I removed the appropriate Upper
and Lower filters in the registry, restarted, and all was well.

I tried this with vista and the upper and lower filters were not present.

I ran a system profile and found my drive (HL DT ST DVD RAM GH IOL) was
listed as uninstalled.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Does the drive show in the system BIOS? How about the cable it's attached
to - does this show in Device Manager?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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[Peter Foldes]

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