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March 8th, 2002, 09:05 AM
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What's the best way to reload drivers and get your system to recognize your cd-rom in the case it disappears? | 
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March 8th, 2002, 09:08 AM
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CD Rom should be detected Automatically by the OS after a restart 
Or use the Add new hardware wizard in Control Panel ...
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March 8th, 2002, 09:13 AM
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I'm sure I don't know the "best" way. I assume you are talking about windows. I would delete the device in device manager (start, settings, system, device manager) and reboot and see if it installs correctly. A virus can cause this also. I had lots of trouble with my daughter's pc not seeing the the CD and it was a virus. Update your virus checker and do a scan.
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March 8th, 2002, 09:16 AM
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what is the situation? are you on a network and maybe you have mapped drives? or is this just at home as a single user.....
just need to post as much info as you can and welcome to the forum. 
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March 8th, 2002, 09:20 AM
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Check your BIOS and see if it's detected there. A CD-ROM does not use drivers, but there may be a problem with your IDE drivers. The other possibility is that it's gone south. I've had two drives just up and die on me. Fortunately, they're cheap.
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March 8th, 2002, 09:28 AM
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As far as i understand ... he doesn't have a problem yet .. he's talking incase something happened .. right  | |
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March 8th, 2002, 09:44 AM
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Thank you everyone for your replies. This happens to be a friend's home system, so there are no mapped drives. I have run into this problem in the past once or twice myself though and can't remember what the fix was. Before putting much thought into this, I thought a corrupted or lost mscdex file could be the cause, and could simply be replaced. But now I'm thinking that the couple of times I've seen this were more likely hardware related (drive gone bad, ide channel, cable, motherboard, etc.) This was just a question that had been bothering me for a while, something I thought I should know how to take care of. Thanks again. | |
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March 8th, 2002, 09:53 AM
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I'm referring to an instance when no D: drive (or whatever your cd-rom may be) is not present at all in windows explorer or my computer. | |
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March 8th, 2002, 10:11 AM
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Did your friend swap IDE's lately? I ran into this problem with my machine and it ended up I was using a high speed transfer cable (40 pin) on a low speed transfer (i.e. cdrom and 80 pin cable) device. This little problem caused issues with all my ide devices. | |
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March 8th, 2002, 10:17 AM
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He mentioned removing a program and also removed the shared files that went with that program. Might have something to do with that. | |
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