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Name: Dagny
Date: September 6, 2003 at 13:37:58 Pacific
Subject: Drives missing
OS: Win Me
CPU/Ram: ??

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One day my CD-Rom and CD-RW drives are no longer detected by my computer. I have no idea where/what to check to find what's wrong. any ideas?
Thanks much

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Response Number 1

Name: Dave02
Date: September 6, 2003 at 16:27:46 Pacific
Subject: Drives missing

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Are they detected and properly recognized in BIOS setup.

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Response Number 2

Name: pat
Date: September 6, 2003 at 19:24:21 Pacific
Subject: Drives missing

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Try one at a time.

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Response Number 3

Name: Krystyna
Date: September 6, 2003 at 22:10:19 Pacific
Subject: Drives missing

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Hi Dagny
CDROM MISSING IN WINDOWS
1. No CDROM listed in Device Manager or My Computer
2. Device Manager shows yellow ! on Hard Disk Controllers
3. Performance shows drives running in MS-DOS Compatibility mode
WHAT TO DO
1. Go to Device Manager
2. Click first entry in Hard Disk Controllers, which will be for PCI BUS Master IDE Controller
3. Click Properties and then Settings
4. In Dual IDE Channel Settings, choose "BOTH IDE Channels enabled"

5. Run REGEDIT and search for NOIDE
6. It will be here if you have it in your registry
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\VXD\IOS
7. Look on right hand screen for NOIDE and delete it, if found
Try that first.
Other possibility is a boot sector virus which causes CDROMs to go missing in Windows.
Good luck
Krystyna

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Response Number 4

Name: drmac
Date: October 7, 2003 at 15:10:39 Pacific
Subject: Drives missing

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I have same problem after removing blaster worm. device manager says "can,t load drivers missing or corrupt" despite reloading a clean driver. Tried Krystyna,s help but no IOS in vxd registry. What next? Donald

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