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cd-rom drive not recognized
After shutting my computer down for a few hours today and
rebooting, my cd-rom drive would not work so I looked in My Computer and it is not showing up. I tried rebooting several times and watching as things loaded and the drive never showed up. As a matter of fact I thought the hard drive wasn't going to show up either since it took so long, but it did and WindowsMe loaded and seems to work just fine, but no cd-rom drive. What should I do first to find out the problem? This happened once before about a week ago, but upon rebooting, there it was and have had no problems since then until today even though I have rebooted numerous times during the last week. I don't have another computer in which to test the drive, so I'm hoping there is a simple solution. Thanks for any help. Janice |
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It sounds as if the CDROM has failed, and there's really no easy way to test
that except by substitution - either by trying the drive in another computer or trying a new or known-good drive in the place of the faulty one. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "granjan" wrote in message ... After shutting my computer down for a few hours today and rebooting, my cd-rom drive would not work so I looked in My Computer and it is not showing up. I tried rebooting several times and watching as things loaded and the drive never showed up. As a matter of fact I thought the hard drive wasn't going to show up either since it took so long, but it did and WindowsMe loaded and seems to work just fine, but no cd-rom drive. What should I do first to find out the problem? This happened once before about a week ago, but upon rebooting, there it was and have had no problems since then until today even though I have rebooted numerous times during the last week. I don't have another computer in which to test the drive, so I'm hoping there is a simple solution. Thanks for any help. Janice |
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Okay, it's working now. Apparently I had some really bad malware
that was causing the problem. I ran Ad-Aware and it found 12 items, 8 of which were ezula related and 2 were ISTBAR (never heard of that one). I'm not sure where I picked them up, but they weren't there 2 days ago. Anyway, thanks for your reply. "Richard G. Harper" wrote in message ... | It sounds as if the CDROM has failed, and there's really no easy way to test | that except by substitution - either by trying the drive in another computer | or trying a new or known-good drive in the place of the faulty one. | | -- | Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] | * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups | * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. | * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/ | * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm | | | "granjan" wrote in message | ... | After shutting my computer down for a few hours today and | rebooting, my cd-rom drive would not work so I looked in My | Computer and it is not showing up. I tried rebooting several | times and watching as things loaded and the drive never showed up. | As a matter of fact I thought the hard drive wasn't going to show | up either since it took so long, but it did and WindowsMe loaded | and seems to work just fine, but no cd-rom drive. What should I do | first to find out the problem? This happened once before about a | week ago, but upon rebooting, there it was and have had no | problems since then until today even though I have rebooted | numerous times during the last week. I don't have another | computer in which to test the drive, so I'm hoping there is a | simple solution. Thanks for any help. | Janice | | | | |
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I'm glad you did get it figured out.
-- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "granjan" wrote in message ... Okay, it's working now. Apparently I had some really bad malware that was causing the problem. I ran Ad-Aware and it found 12 items, 8 of which were ezula related and 2 were ISTBAR (never heard of that one). I'm not sure where I picked them up, but they weren't there 2 days ago. Anyway, thanks for your reply. "Richard G. Harper" wrote in message ... | It sounds as if the CDROM has failed, and there's really no easy way to test | that except by substitution - either by trying the drive in another computer | or trying a new or known-good drive in the place of the faulty one. | | -- | Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] | * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups | * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. | * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/ | * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm | | | "granjan" wrote in message | ... | After shutting my computer down for a few hours today and | rebooting, my cd-rom drive would not work so I looked in My | Computer and it is not showing up. I tried rebooting several | times and watching as things loaded and the drive never showed up. | As a matter of fact I thought the hard drive wasn't going to show | up either since it took so long, but it did and WindowsMe loaded | and seems to work just fine, but no cd-rom drive. What should I do | first to find out the problem? This happened once before about a | week ago, but upon rebooting, there it was and have had no | problems since then until today even though I have rebooted | numerous times during the last week. I don't have another | computer in which to test the drive, so I'm hoping there is a | simple solution. Thanks for any help. | Janice | | | | |
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