Winows has lost my CD rom & DVD ROm drives

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for some reason windows does not pick up my CDRom And DVD
drives. I see A, C,D,E,F & J drives showing but my two
roms drive G & H do not show, ive uninstalled the drivers
and windows re installs them but fails to find my roms.
Hoever they are picked up on the dual drive so therefore I
know it is not a physical problem

Any Ideas used to work fine!!!


thank

Alan
 
allan said:
for some reason windows does not pick up my CDRom And DVD
drives. I see A, C,D,E,F & J drives showing but my two
roms drive G & H do not show, ive uninstalled the drivers
and windows re installs them but fails to find my roms.
Hoever they are picked up on the dual drive so therefore I
know it is not a physical problem

Any Ideas used to work fine!!!
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Do NOT be afraid of the registry hack here. It is SAFE and has helped MANY
people.
Respect the registry, don't fear it.

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.



Or try this:

http://www.dougknox.com/

Select 'Windows Utilities' and scroll down to 'Restore CD/DVD drives to
Windows Explorer.'
Perhaps his utility will do the trick. =)
 
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