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From: Philx5 on 20 Jun 2010 06:13
My DVD drives have disappeared. they don't show as hardware in control panel.

Working fine yesterday - no software changes made.

Both have power to them. I've unplugged everything and put a new lead from
them to the motherboard.
Doesn't appear to be anything physical.

Followed various posts on this site. Mr Fixit recognises the problem but
can't fix it.

Went into registry. Higher filters there but no lower filters.

Any suggestions?
From: philo on 20 Jun 2010 06:42
On 06/20/2010 05:13 AM, Philx5 wrote:
> My DVD drives have disappeared. they don't show as hardware in control panel.
>
> Working fine yesterday - no software changes made.
>
> Both have power to them. I've unplugged everything and put a new lead from
> them to the motherboard.
> Doesn't appear to be anything physical.
>
> Followed various posts on this site. Mr Fixit recognises the problem but
> can't fix it.
>
> Went into registry. Higher filters there but no lower filters.
>
> Any suggestions?



does the bios see them?
From: Jim on 20 Jun 2010 07:16
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:13:57 -0700, Philx5
<Philx5(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My DVD drives have disappeared. they don't show as hardware in control panel.
>
>Working fine yesterday - no software changes made.
>
>Both have power to them. I've unplugged everything and put a new lead from
>them to the motherboard.
>Doesn't appear to be anything physical.
>
>Followed various posts on this site. Mr Fixit recognises the problem but
>can't fix it.
>
>Went into registry. Higher filters there but no lower filters.
>
>Any suggestions?

System restore to when they were working .
From: Peter Foldes on 20 Jun 2010 11:49
Delete the Higher filters
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982116
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"Philx5" <Philx5(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C59720DD-F803-4537-B88C-2DDBE8E4C2AD(a)microsoft.com...
> My DVD drives have disappeared. they don't show as hardware in control panel.
>
> Working fine yesterday - no software changes made.
>
> Both have power to them. I've unplugged everything and put a new lead from
> them to the motherboard.
> Doesn't appear to be anything physical.
>
> Followed various posts on this site. Mr Fixit recognises the problem but
> can't fix it.
>
> Went into registry. Higher filters there but no lower filters.
>
> Any suggestions?

From: Chet on 20 Jun 2010 14:34
On 6/20/2010 5:13 AM, Philx5 wrote:
> My DVD drives have disappeared. they don't show as hardware in control panel.
>
> Working fine yesterday - no software changes made.
>
> Both have power to them. I've unplugged everything and put a new lead from
> them to the motherboard.
> Doesn't appear to be anything physical.
>
> Followed various posts on this site. Mr Fixit recognises the problem but
> can't fix it.
>
> Went into registry. Higher filters there but no lower filters.
>
> Any suggestions?

You may want to check out this article at Microsoft support:

windows xp does not recognize cd
<http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cd_dvd_drive_problems>

In the What it fixes list you'll see:

A CD or DVD drive cannot be found or is not connected

hth

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