Cd-rom drives wont show up. Help Please!!!

Well i need help putrting back my Cd-rom drives (two drives). Just all of a sudden they stoped showing up in my computer. So, I went to the Device mananger and they appear but they have a question mark and can't update the drivers it say something about Hving problems to inslled the drivers. Even the virtual drive are gone and with the question mark on the Divice Manager. Somebody I need help, Please!

 

That didn't work. Still put the name of the drive but it's doesn't recognize it and I can't upcate driver because it say a problem was encountered

 

There is only exclamation mark in both drive I have. Even if I anable the Daemon tool virtual drive the exclamation mark comes on the vitual drives too.

 

make sure you unplug, not just turn it off, your computer before dettaching any hardware.

 

that didn't work either. I think I'm going to reinstall Windows again for the 5th time now. I'll wait a bit to see if I can find the way. If you have answaers please post them.

 

I had a problem like this working on a persons comp before. Here is a copy of my chat with tech support on it, I hope it helps you (slightly edited...):

Shalini Gopal
Here are the steps to be followed:


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1. Click Start.
2. Click Run.
3. In the "Open" field type REGEDIT.
4. Click OK.
5. Click "File" in the menu bar.


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6. Click "Export" from the drop down menu this will open a new box.
7. Click the down arrow beside "Save In" and select "Local Disk (C".
8. In the File Name field type BACKUP.REG.
9. Verify that under the ?Export Range?, that the radio button is beside "All".


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10. Click Save.


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11. Click the plus sign (+) beside HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
12. Click the plus sign (+) beside System.
13. Click the plus sign (+) beside CurrentControlSet.
14. Click the plus sign (+) beside Control.
15. Click the plus sign (+) beside Class.


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16. In the left hand window pane click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
to select that key.
17. In the right hand window pane select the UpperFilters registry key and press
the delete key on the keyboard.
18. Confirm with an OK.


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19. In the right hand window pane select the LowerFilters registry key and press
the delete key on the keyboard.
20. Confirm with an OK.
21. Click the "X" in the upper right hand corner of the Registry Editor window
to close it.

done.

hope it works!

 

Thank you very much it worked perfectly

 

deadshane,


Thank you so much for that instruction it was a life saver after a week of trying to figure this thing out.
what was exactly wrong at the first place if you don't mind explaining thanks a million.

Best wishes and regards

 

I had a comp that had that problem and tried all sorts of things to try and fix it.... finaly I tried tech support at Compaq and they coached me through it....