Optical drives dissapeared

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chapell123

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I think it was after the updates loaded for windows incl. sp1 or after the vista patch for the game witcher which came from the microsoft site. Problem is that my optical drives dissappeared and the wireless adapter seemed to become D drive.
Device manager says drivers missing but windows says has latest drivers. Have disk for both LG drives but computer cant see drive to be able to run. Help pls.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    Intel (R) core (TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66 Ghz
    Motherboard
    asus P5K
    Memory
    2G Kingston
    Graphics card(s)
    Geforce 8800 GTS 512
    Sound Card
    Fatality FX Champion
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 930B and Samsung 650 series 52 Inch
    Hard Drives
    WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGAO ATA Device x2 Transcend 250G Backup
    PSU
    750W thermal cool
    Case
    Armour Tower
    Cooling
    5 fans and CNPS 8000 CPU cooler
    Mouse
    MS Wireless
    Keyboard
    MS Wireless
Look in the device manager under dvd/cd rom drives and right click to uninstall there. Following a system restart Windows should see the default drivers installed automatically. You can also look in the Disk Management tool with a disk in each drive to see if a drive letter is presently assigned to each one.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom built desktops =2 Toshiba replace HP laptop
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb core 3.6ghz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
    Memory
    Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
    Graphics card(s)
    MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
    Hard Drives
    WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2 WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2 External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1 External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
    PSU
    Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
    Case
    Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
    Mouse
    MSI Interceptor D200
    Keyboard
    AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
    Internet Speed
    30mbps upgrade
Thanks for reponse. I uninstalled and rebooted. Windows searched and then attempted to install drivers. Actioned failed on both drives account claimed drivers were orrupt or missing. code 39. There is a D drive shown in " my computer" but computer doesnt repond to actual drive ie insert disk in either D or e drive and cant see. Device manager shows exclamation marks on both drives. properties on drives say windows cannot load drivers account driver corrupt or missing. Tried to roll back and update drivers but windows says that the best drivers are installed. Thought maybe the lower or upper filters and ran regedit but couldnt find files to delete so chickened out. Paul
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    Intel (R) core (TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66 Ghz
    Motherboard
    asus P5K
    Memory
    2G Kingston
    Graphics card(s)
    Geforce 8800 GTS 512
    Sound Card
    Fatality FX Champion
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 930B and Samsung 650 series 52 Inch
    Hard Drives
    WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGAO ATA Device x2 Transcend 250G Backup
    PSU
    750W thermal cool
    Case
    Armour Tower
    Cooling
    5 fans and CNPS 8000 CPU cooler
    Mouse
    MS Wireless
    Keyboard
    MS Wireless
I also looked in System info and under CD-rom both drives are there but under value sDrive Not Available
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type UNKNOWN
Name HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55L ATA Device
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status Error
Transfer Rate -1.00 kbytes/sec
SCSI Target ID Not Available
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROMHL-DT-ST_DVD-RAM_GSA-H55L_______________1.06____\6&3A3DA5C5&0&1.0.0
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (6.0.6001.18000, 78.00 KB (79,872 bytes), 1/20/2008 9:46 PM)

Drive Not Available
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type UNKNOWN
Name HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55N ATA Device
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status Error
Transfer Rate -1.00 kbytes/sec
SCSI Target ID Not Available
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROMHL-DT-ST_DVD-RAM_GSA-H55N_______________1.06____\6&3A3DA5C5&0&1.1.0
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys (6.0.6001.18000, 78.00 KB (79,872 bytes), 1/20/2008 9:46 PM)
ays drive is unavailable.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    Intel (R) core (TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66 Ghz
    Motherboard
    asus P5K
    Memory
    2G Kingston
    Graphics card(s)
    Geforce 8800 GTS 512
    Sound Card
    Fatality FX Champion
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 930B and Samsung 650 series 52 Inch
    Hard Drives
    WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGAO ATA Device x2 Transcend 250G Backup
    PSU
    750W thermal cool
    Case
    Armour Tower
    Cooling
    5 fans and CNPS 8000 CPU cooler
    Mouse
    MS Wireless
    Keyboard
    MS Wireless
Appreciate help all. Drives are back now. Thanks again.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    Intel (R) core (TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66 Ghz
    Motherboard
    asus P5K
    Memory
    2G Kingston
    Graphics card(s)
    Geforce 8800 GTS 512
    Sound Card
    Fatality FX Champion
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung 930B and Samsung 650 series 52 Inch
    Hard Drives
    WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGAO ATA Device x2 Transcend 250G Backup
    PSU
    750W thermal cool
    Case
    Armour Tower
    Cooling
    5 fans and CNPS 8000 CPU cooler
    Mouse
    MS Wireless
    Keyboard
    MS Wireless
Your Welcome chapell123. Good to hear that its working.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Compaq
    CPU
    intel core 2 duo T 5550 @ 1.83 MHz
    Motherboard
    intel 965 chipset family
    Memory
    2 GB DDR 2 SD RAM @ 667 MHz
    Graphics card(s)
    On board upto 358 MB RAM
    Sound Card
    Onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    15"
    Hard Drives
    160 GB WDC
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