I have a IBM thinkpad R40 with XP home and the factory CD/DVD drive in it.
The drive is getting power and will spin when a disk is inserted but aborts
after a few seconds. I also can't find the drive in the Device Manager,
Explorer, or My Computer. This has been happening on and off for a few
months, but it would come back usually after a restart. Yesterday the drive
would appear after a restart if I searched for it immediately upon start up.
Now it's completely AWOL, I can't find it anywhere. I've tried everything I
can think of including:
Restarts
Entire troubleshoot protocol from Help and Support
Filter limit changes - I don't have the filter limits, tried creating them,
nothing changed
Physically removing/replacing the device multiple times and ways

And to top it all off, I don't have a system backup.

If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them as I'm at my wit's end.

Thank you for any suggestions

Hi, KEK.

I also can't find the drive in the Device Manager,
Explorer, or My Computer.

Can you find it in Disk Management? There you can assign it a drive letter.
Windows Explorer should be able to find it then.

There are several ways to get to Disk Management. Maybe the easiest is to
click Start and then type: diskmgmt.msc

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)

"KEK" wrote in message
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I have a IBM thinkpad R40 with XP home and the factory CD/DVD drive in it.
The drive is getting power and will spin when a disk is inserted but
aborts
after a few seconds. I also can't find the drive in the Device Manager,
Explorer, or My Computer. This has been happening on and off for a few
months, but it would come back usually after a restart. Yesterday the
drive
would appear after a restart if I searched for it immediately upon start
up.
Now it's completely AWOL, I can't find it anywhere. I've tried everything
I
can think of including:
Restarts
Entire troubleshoot protocol from Help and Support
Filter limit changes - I don't have the filter limits, tried creating
them,
nothing changed
Physically removing/replacing the device multiple times and ways

And to top it all off, I don't have a system backup.

If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them as I'm at my wit's end.

Thank you for any suggestions

Thanks for your suggestion. I looked in Disk Management and it's not in
there either. I also forgot to add that in the past few months when the
drive was recognized it read CDs and DVDs just fine. If you have anymore
suggestions I would love to hear them. Thanks again.

"R. C. White" wrote:

Hi, KEK.

I also can't find the drive in the Device Manager,
Explorer, or My Computer.

Can you find it in Disk Management? There you can assign it a drive letter.
Windows Explorer should be able to find it then.

There are several ways to get to Disk Management. Maybe the easiest is to
click Start and then type: diskmgmt.msc

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)

"KEK" wrote in message
...
I have a IBM thinkpad R40 with XP home and the factory CD/DVD drive in it.
The drive is getting power and will spin when a disk is inserted but
aborts
after a few seconds. I also can't find the drive in the Device Manager,
Explorer, or My Computer. This has been happening on and off for a few
months, but it would come back usually after a restart. Yesterday the
drive
would appear after a restart if I searched for it immediately upon start
up.
Now it's completely AWOL, I can't find it anywhere. I've tried everything
I
can think of including:
Restarts
Entire troubleshoot protocol from Help and Support
Filter limit changes - I don't have the filter limits, tried creating
them,
nothing changed
Physically removing/replacing the device multiple times and ways

And to top it all off, I don't have a system backup.

If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them as I'm at my wit's end.

Thank you for any suggestions