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March 6th 09, 12:48 PM
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Lost CD/DVD Drives Problem......Again
I have the problem where I cannot access 2 of my CD DVD drives on my system. I have in total 3 drives - 1 CD writer and 1 DVD writer connected to the IDE bus, which are visible in the BIOS but not under Vista Premium. I have a DVD writer connected to the SATA bus which I can see under Vista. Having a search through the forum there is a known issue where I need to remove the upper and lower limits in the registry from this Microsoft article 'The CD drive or the DVD drive does not work as expected on a computer that you upgraded to Windows Vista' (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929461) - which I only had to remove the upper limits (there was no entry for the lower limits). But I still cannot see the drives. So before I do a rebuild, any ideas what else I could try? Cheers Dave W -- Bolosun 
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March 6th 09, 10:33 PM
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Lost CD/DVD Drives Problem......Again
Which drive is master? I assume that the drives are on the secondary IDE
buss. What I would do-- Set the DVD IDE drive as master. disconnect the CD drive. Disconnect the USB drive. Remove any extra registry entries involved with the secondary CD drive. See if you can force detection of the remaining DVD drive. "Bolosun" wrote in message ... I have the problem where I cannot access 2 of my CD DVD drives on my system. I have in total 3 drives - 1 CD writer and 1 DVD writer connected to the IDE bus, which are visible in the BIOS but not under Vista Premium. I have a DVD writer connected to the SATA bus which I can see under Vista. Having a search through the forum there is a known issue where I need to remove the upper and lower limits in the registry from this Microsoft article 'The CD drive or the DVD drive does not work as expected on a computer that you upgraded to Windows Vista' (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929461) - which I only had to remove the upper limits (there was no entry for the lower limits). But I still cannot see the drives. So before I do a rebuild, any ideas what else I could try? Cheers Dave W -- Bolosun
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March 7th 09, 09:13 AM
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Lost CD/DVD Drives Problem......Again
Well I fixed it.  All I did was, under Device Manager right click IDE ATAT/ATAPI controllers, then select "Scan for hardware changes", and they came back. Cheers -- Bolosun
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