CD Rom Drives missing

[Guest rdsimpson]

I recently installed a second hard drive, which appears in both windows

explorer and my computer, but now both cd Rom drives are missing in both of

these programs?

[Guest PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Re: CD Rom Drives missing

 

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rdsimpson wrote:

> I recently installed a second hard drive, which appears in both windows

> explorer and my computer, but now both cd Rom drives are missing in both

> of

> these programs?

[Guest Another Brian]

Re: CD Rom Drives missing

 

Try going to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer

Management. Expand the tree and under Storage, select Disk Management.

Are the CD-ROM's listed? If they are and do not have a drive letter,

you'll need to right-click on each CD-ROM and select Change Drive

Letter and Paths and give each of them a new letter. Please note that

this may mess up any previously installed application that requires

its CD be in the drive to run. It also may mess up the ability to

update or repair previously installed applications.

 

If, previously, the CD-ROM's were drives D: and E:, but now the new HD

is drive D:, it would probably be a better idea to change the new HD

letter from D: to F: (or the next available letter after E:) and then

set the CD-ROM's back to D: and E:.

 

Brian Bygland

 

"rdsimpson" <rdsimpson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:5C1E8C8A-18AE-4822-8865-88CA543A5775@microsoft.com...

>I recently installed a second hard drive, which appears in both

>windows

> explorer and my computer, but now both cd Rom drives are missing in

> both of

> these programs?

[Guest Gus]

Re: CD Rom Drives missing

 

 

 

"Another Brian" wrote:

> Try going to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer

> Management. Expand the tree and under Storage, select Disk Management.

> Are the CD-ROM's listed? If they are and do not have a drive letter,

> you'll need to right-click on each CD-ROM and select Change Drive

> Letter and Paths and give each of them a new letter. Please note that

> this may mess up any previously installed application that requires

> its CD be in the drive to run. It also may mess up the ability to

> update or repair previously installed applications.

>

> If, previously, the CD-ROM's were drives D: and E:, but now the new HD

> is drive D:, it would probably be a better idea to change the new HD

> letter from D: to F: (or the next available letter after E:) and then

> set the CD-ROM's back to D: and E:.

>

> Brian Bygland

>

> "rdsimpson" <rdsimpson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:5C1E8C8A-18AE-4822-8865-88CA543A5775@microsoft.com...

> >I recently installed a second hard drive, which appears in both

> >windows

> > explorer and my computer, but now both cd Rom drives are missing in

> > both of

> > these programs?

>

>

> Download this patch......http://www.aumha.org/regfiles.php

scroll down to" restore missing cd drive" and download the patch

[Guest Kelly]

Re: CD Rom Drives missing

 

Check your Master/Slave settings.

 

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"rdsimpson" <rdsimpson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:5C1E8C8A-18AE-4822-8865-88CA543A5775@microsoft.com...

>I recently installed a second hard drive, which appears in both windows

> explorer and my computer, but now both cd Rom drives are missing in both

> of

> these programs?