Windows xp cd drives disappear

See if any of these help you. Just letting you know Couldn't we just try to locate the corresponding registry key Thanks alot folks. Close Box. Log In Come Join Us!

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Click "Device Manager" button. Right-Click each component and select uninstall Perform steps 9 for all the components under this category. Restart the computer. Have you installed any new software? There is software that can rename, take over or hide your drives. Do you back up regularly? Ok enough of the mom stuff, if your BIOS and if your device manager can see the drive then it is ether being used by a program or disabled for your profile.

Go to control panel and user accounts, create a new account. Give it every thing and create a password this is only for testing, you can delete it after you are done. Tell it to use the welcome screen so that you pick the user.

Then click ok and reboot so the changes will take effect. Log on as the new user to see if see the drives if not then it is not your profile if it does then you need to save your profile settings and delete it. Reboot and log in to recreate your profile and add your settings back to your profile.

If none of that works, you can try editing a registry key that may have gotten deleted or corrupted. Open an administrator command prompt and copy and paste the following:. You should also make sure the drive has a drive letter assigned to it and that the letter is not already taken by another device. Read my previous post on how to change drive letters in Windows to see if the drive letter is causing the drive now to show up.

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