no CD/DVD drivers

[RemusRigo]

Hi all

I have a big problem and I don't want to reinstall Vista. I had drive X: (logical DVD-RW drive) and drive T: (a virtual drive), my problem is that in disk managent window i have only my HDD drive and my DVD drive is missing...
Can anyone help me????

Regards
Remus Rigo

 

[roy69]

Try looking in device manager to see if it appears there.
Try starting in safe mode.
list your system specs.

Is it an ide or sata drive.
Does the eject button work on the drive.

 

[RemusRigo]

my logical and virtual drives were working fine until yesterday....
the drive is on IDE and the tray door is ejecting just fine...

 

[RemusRigo]

PS:
just restarted in safe mode and changed the user...
the same thing happens, no drives

 

[RemusRigo]

problem fixed

You can no longer access the CD drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error message after you remove a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in Windows XP: "error code 31"

 

[RemusRigo]

support.microsoft.com/kb/314060