CD Rom drives are gone??

**BLiZZaRD** · 03-13-2007, 08:17 PM

A while ago I was working on some harddrives and as I didn't have a working mother board then I replaced my current harddrives with those I was working on.

Now, everything is back to normal and everything works.. except that my cd-rw drive is gone, and a dvd-rw drive is listed in it's place.

there is no dvd drive on this computer, nor has there ever been. I am guessing it is something that got sent over from the other harddrives, but I can't see, without a good fdisk fix how to get my drives back and the ones listed that don't exist gone.

Ideas?

Win XP, if it matters

**Twey** · 03-13-2007, 08:40 PM

Go into the Device Manager and delete all the drivers for your CD/DVD drives, then reboot. This will cause Windows to redetect your drives and reinstall the drivers for them.

Reboot - check
Reinstall - check
Reformat - let's hope this isn't necessary

**BLiZZaRD** · 03-13-2007, 08:43 PM

Should I delete just the drivers or the whole instance of the dvd roms? (Since I don't even have them I don't want them on the list at all

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**Twey** · 03-13-2007, 08:44 PM

They're the same thing in the device manager -- it doesn't actually show drives, just their drivers. Delete everything pertaining to the CD/DVD drives. Don't worry about breaking things, Windows will reinstall anything it needs.

**BLiZZaRD** · 03-13-2007, 08:52 PM

Thanks Twey, I will give it a go. I swear I did something similar to this before, but it must have been on another machine

I will let you know if it didn't work

**BLiZZaRD** · 03-13-2007, 09:26 PM

No, that didn't work... grrr

I did the uninstall, reboot and it found new hardware, installed the hardware.. and it installed the same fricking thing! A dvd rom drive with a drive letter o: WTF?

Anything else I can try? I would like to use my drive to burn some cd.s and it can't find it....

**tech_support** · 03-13-2007, 09:44 PM

The CD drive might be busted. (Same as 30% of my school's burners

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**BLiZZaRD** · 03-15-2007, 06:32 PM

Well, if I put in a bootable CD and reboot, it runs the CD that way, so the drive works... it should be drive E: but it is showing O: along with a completely different type of drive.

Sigh.. any other ideas, I will NOT format the hd!