Hi Bob

Try rebooting but this time, after you power down, unplug the computer from
the mains, wait for about a minute then reboot. By powering down you will
clear anything in the memory that is stopping the drives from being seen.

Paul


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Welch" <TechZilla@...>
To: <WinTips-Tricks@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 5:05 AM
Subject: RE: [WinTips-Tricks] can't find dvd drive


> Bob,
>
> I can now say I have heard of a disc being so unreadible that it freaks
> out
> an optical reader to the point it causes problems similar to other
> problems
> that could account for similar problems. Did removing the disc and
> rebooting clear the issue on your machine after the second try and have
> you
> tried ripping a completely different disc (not copy protected)?
>
> Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WinTips-Tricks@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:WinTips-Tricks@yahoogroups.com]
> On Behalf Of Bob
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:28 AM
> To: WinTips-Tricks@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [WinTips-Tricks] can't find dvd drive
>
> I haven't disappeared, an I have been watching all posts.
>
> Here are some of the details:
>
> 1. I was trying to rip a cd and it was obviously a bad cd and wouldn't
> rip.
> 2. the computer froze and I had to physically shut it off and reboot.
> 3. When I booted up, I tried to rip another cd, and when I put the cd in
> nothing happened.
> 4. I decided to go right to the cd to "explore" by going to My Computer
> and
> discovered that the drive e and drive f were not showing up.
> 5. I went to device manager and didn't see them listed there either.
> 6. I gave the problem disc to a co-worker who put it in his Linux driven
> lap
> top and it didn't play AND HIS DVD DRIVE DISAPPEARED as well. But it
> returned when he re-booted.
>
> I have pictures on this the photo site in the folder called csawtt
> computer
> that will show some of the problems I've described.
>
> bob
>
>
> ======================================
>
> The original poster of this question - Bob (who seems to have
> disappeared) -
> had a different situation which is why I didn't offer this as a solution.
> As
> Michael pointed out in his excellent post this morning, Bob had two drives
> missing simultaneously and the description of the problem was limited to
> one
> sentence. You can't really diagnose anything based on - "Suddenly they
> aren't showing up in "My Computer" Dell desktop". Maybe he was upgrading
> his
> own computer and he put the jumpers in the wrong way in the two IDE
> drives -
> if they were IDE - who knows? Without more information it could really be
> any number of things.
>
> Alan
>
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