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Old April 30th 05, 03:34 AM
granjan
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Default 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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Old April 30th 05, 11:03 AM
Richard G. Harper
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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.

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"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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Old April 30th 05, 03:27 PM
granjan
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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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Old April 30th 05, 09:53 PM
Richard G. Harper
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I'm glad you did get it figured out.

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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.
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* 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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