Computer Problems? Computing.Net has over 1,000,000 posts about all things technology related! Over 90% answered within 24 hours! Click here to start participating now! Also, be sure to check out the New User Guide.
lost cd drive
Name: marialoman Date: February 8, 2005 at 14:09:04 Pacific OS: win xp CPU/Ram: 512
Comment:
i am trying to fix a laptop that can't find the cd drive. the device manager screen is empty. the "my computer" shows c drive and d drive but no cd rom drive. the lap top does not have a floppy drive. i cannot get it to go on the internet, it just says page cannot be found, no matter what url in put in. please help.
Name: per Date: February 8, 2005 at 14:11:06 Pacific
Reply:
Try this if you are comfortable editting the registry. Create a Restore point and back up the registry.Open regedit. Look for;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\SetControlClass. Key name: {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Value Data:[Delete all value data from upper and lower filters] Note-Do not delete the key or the multi-string values. Delete only the data values. Exit regedit and reboot.
Summary: Okay, I have a lost CD drive, but a person told me I could download MSCD.EXE from microsoft.com. But I went there, and I totally could not find it. Can you help me find MSCD.EXE, please? ...
Summary: I was trying to install a webcam and got blue screen/shut & down when restarted no CD drives and says drivers are gone and then wants to get them from XP cd but of course cant see the CD drives. I hav...
Summary: http://www.computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/1109.html Response #4 If that doesn't work and your CD drives are on the same cable, spit them up on different cables. Worked for me! ...
0 
