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DVD Drive E: Drive disappearing from Vista Home Premium 64
I have two SATA Liteon DVD drives, E: DVDRW LH-20A1L and F: DVD SHD-16S1S. Starting yesterday,Drive E: disappeared from My Computer and is not displayed in Device Manager, BIOS shows it's there. Yesterday Vista started taking longer to load too, the green loading bar freezes for about a minute. I tried running Start Up Repair from Vista Disc, repair didn't fing anything so I used Restore Point. Still the same problem. PC is about two years old, I built it, with Vista and MOBO drivers/downloads up to date. I'm not getting any error codes as similar posts state. Drive F: has no problems loading. Drive E: has latest Firmware too from Liteon. Until yesterday Drive E: had always loaded. At a loss as to why Vista can't see it when Bios does. Both drives have power as the led lights blink at start up and i can open E: by pressing button. Any direction in solving this issue would be appreciated...thx! -- dma5949 |
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DVD Drive E: Drive disappearing from Vista Home Premium 64
Hi,
Have you tried the steps here? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461 -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "dma5949" wrote in message ... I have two SATA Liteon DVD drives, E: DVDRW LH-20A1L and F: DVD SHD-16S1S. Starting yesterday,Drive E: disappeared from My Computer and is not displayed in Device Manager, BIOS shows it's there. Yesterday Vista started taking longer to load too, the green loading bar freezes for about a minute. I tried running Start Up Repair from Vista Disc, repair didn't fing anything so I used Restore Point. Still the same problem. PC is about two years old, I built it, with Vista and MOBO drivers/downloads up to date. I'm not getting any error codes as similar posts state. Drive F: has no problems loading. Drive E: has latest Firmware too from Liteon. Until yesterday Drive E: had always loaded. At a loss as to why Vista can't see it when Bios does. Both drives have power as the led lights blink at start up and i can open E: by pressing button. Any direction in solving this issue would be appreciated...thx! -- dma5949 |
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