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windows not recognizing cd drive

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after i defraged my hard drive windows did not recognize my cd drive anymore but it is in the list of drives in my bios. do i reinstall windows or is it something in the configs. need help please

Reply:

check Device Manager for any yellow exclamation points on your CD-ROM drive or controllers.

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Name: Dan Penny
Date: May 31, 2003 at 13:14:54 Pacific

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Remove the cd in Device Mangler and reboot. If that doesn't work, post back to this thread.

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Name: sam
Date: May 31, 2003 at 13:21:53 Pacific

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http://www.mesich.com/cdrommissing.html

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I had this problem in Win98se. Go to CDROM in Device Manager and uncheck the boxes that say 'Auto Insert Notification' and 'DMA', then reboot.

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