LOST HARD DRIVE / CD ROM ON XP PRO

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n1cks21

Hi,

I am running XP Pro, just recently XP says I only have a C and D
drive when it used to say I had C,D,E and F (Cd - Rom) now I know the
cable is ok as it is reconised in the bios but XP all of a sudden has
lost E and F

any ideas ???

cheers

Nick
 
Here's an edited copy of my recent post. All or none of it may apply
to your situation. Try the TweakUI tip first.

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Alrighty then, it seems that this problem has come up too often. On
my machine, things were running smoothly, no new installs, then
*poof*, CD-RW, DVD-ROM and an emulated CD-ROM all disappear from the
Explorer. BIOS shows drives and I can even burn a CD just can't see
the drives in the explorer!!!

So, I run tweakui and find that the corresponding drive letters have
been unselected. No idea how this happened (anyone, anyone?)

I'm not running Easy CD Creator which may pose a related problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

Also deleted the UpperFilters and LowerFilters strings in the
following key (anyone know what they do?)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]

Darryl.
 
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