missing dvd

[bustupbiker]

Just booted up and my dvd drive has gone AWOL, was on the pc ealier today.
I have not loaded any new software or removed any, in fact i have done nuffink, was der not not der...anybody no whats going on! tried everthing i no uninstalled it put the thing to sleep and reawakened it still no go..
Almost time......Bloody Windowz Vista.....

 

[POG]

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[bustupbiker]

Cheers Dave....

 

[bustupbiker]

Found the fix, if this should happen to you, it's a common problem in Vista. On a startup you can find you are missing your CD/DVD drive/s.
You have to go into the Registry and delete an entry, like so.


Click Start then Run and type regedit...click "Ok"

In the left pane, expand (click +) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then SYSTEM, then CurrentControlSet, then Control, then Class, and click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} In the right pane, are UpperFilters and/or LowerFilters listed?

highlight LowerFilters go to the edit tab click and click DELETE click ok to the message. Restart and the drives should be back...
Lyn. OH! this is the same fix as was used back in the first days of XP.