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re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared
Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 7:24 pm
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Posted by Rachel (2 messages posted)

OMG. I am SO happy to have found this forum and the link to http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts/xp_cd_dvd_fix.vbs.

It was a miracle fix, and didn't even require a re-boot! My CD and DVD drives are back within seconds of the patch. Don't know what caused the disappearance (something with Nero) but am grateful to Doug Knox for this fix!

I'm in the middle of a project and couldn't afford to lose more time. Thanks to Google for helping me find this wonderful forum and Doug Knox!

www.StJudeRun.com

On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 5:08 pm, Sanjeev wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to fix the same problem on someone's computer. The cd-rom dissappered
>when he tried to install an external cd-writer. I booted off of the XP installation
>CD, ran the setup, and chose to repair the installation. NOW, when it boots up it
>is trying to finish setting up. It looks for the xp cd-rom, but can't find the drive.
> It is driving me nuts. If someone can help, I would be very thankful.
>
>
>
>
>

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re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Sanjeev: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 5:08 pm)

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Followup: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Rachel: Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 9:46 pm)

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all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Chris: Fri, Jul 4, 2003, 11:20 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Chris: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 1:36 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Dianne Oswald: Wed, Oct 22, 2003, 7:05 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Robert Burns: Thu, Aug 30, 2007, 7:06 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Trev: Sat, Apr 3, 2004, 12:19 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (caseh: Tue, Apr 27, 2004, 6:28 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Steve L: Sun, Aug 15, 2004, 11:59 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Tam: Wed, Sep 7, 2005, 7:05 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Larry: Wed, Nov 3, 2004, 1:20 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Lars De Jong: Sun, Nov 7, 2004, 6:47 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Margold: Mon, Dec 13, 2004, 9:37 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (erick: Mon, Dec 27, 2004, 11:38 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (terri: Mon, Jun 6, 2005, 4:50 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Aegis111686: Mon, Jul 4, 2005, 1:25 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (geodet: Sat, Jul 23, 2005, 5:43 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Allen: Sat, Aug 27, 2005, 10:52 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Mel: Tue, Aug 30, 2005, 7:31 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (terri: Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 12:11 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (kaoumaby: Sat, Nov 12, 2005, 4:57 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Allan: Wed, Nov 16, 2005, 7:46 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Carl Chinn: Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 2:47 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Falcon: Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 6:15 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (aggravated: Fri, Mar 10, 2006, 9:35 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Gee: Thu, Dec 13, 2007, 9:41 am)

CD drive went missing (Rodent: Thu, Jan 10, 2008, 6:51 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (sammy old: Sat, Jan 12, 2008, 3:53 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Sanjeev: Wed, Feb 16, 2005, 5:08 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (ultimatezero: Sun, Apr 17, 2005, 12:21 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (ultimatezero: Sun, Apr 17, 2005, 12:28 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Rachel: Sat, Mar 1, 2008, 7:24 pm)

Followup: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Rachel: Sat, Mar 1, 2008, 9:46 pm)

re: Followup: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Mike: Sun, Mar 16, 2008, 11:18 pm)

re: Followup: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Steve: Thu, May 29, 2008, 12:18 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (michele: Mon, Dec 19, 2005, 11:44 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Ed: Mon, Dec 26, 2005, 12:02 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (tami: Tue, Dec 27, 2005, 1:03 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Ed: Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 10:18 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Dean: Fri, Feb 3, 2006, 8:25 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Michelle Hoffman: Fri, Feb 17, 2006, 3:41 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Angela Heaver: Sat, Mar 18, 2006, 5:54 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Michelle E: Wed, Mar 29, 2006, 6:34 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Mr.America: Thu, Apr 6, 2006, 4:19 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Michelle E: Thu, Apr 6, 2006, 6:09 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (jks: Mon, Apr 17, 2006, 3:36 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Adam: Tue, May 2, 2006, 5:32 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (CKPlus: Thu, May 11, 2006, 12:23 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (James Mackey: Thu, May 11, 2006, 2:44 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Tony S: Sun, Aug 20, 2006, 9:55 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (kim: Sun, Oct 1, 2006, 5:05 am)

re: all my storage devices suddenly dissappeared (Mark: Thu, Oct 5, 2006, 3:54 pm)

re: all my storage devices suddenly dissappeared (helpDawneeee: Thu, Nov 9, 2006, 7:32 am)

re: all my storage devices suddenly dissappeared (Neil Park: Wed, Dec 27, 2006, 1:10 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Todd Timlake: Sun, Feb 11, 2007, 11:30 pm)

"Roxio Easy CD & DVD Burning" Misfortune (WeAreZilla: Thu, Feb 15, 2007, 5:31 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (DP: Fri, May 18, 2007, 3:59 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (kr22: Mon, May 21, 2007, 4:21 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (richard: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 3:41 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (John Lostetter: Sat, Jul 5, 2003, 4:19 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Chris: Sun, Jul 6, 2003, 10:01 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Claude: Sun, Oct 12, 2003, 4:59 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Chris: Sat, Dec 27, 2003, 9:21 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (bryn: Sun, Mar 14, 2004, 1:50 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Bill Bevill: Tue, Feb 1, 2005, 4:36 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Jim U'Ren: Fri, May 20, 2005, 10:30 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Eric: Wed, Sep 7, 2005, 4:25 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Phil: Sat, Dec 17, 2005, 3:02 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Bucky Pope: Mon, Jan 2, 2006, 6:15 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (duco de klonia: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 11:44 am)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (duco de klonia: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 1:08 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (Bucky Pope: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 3:06 pm)

re: all my CD rom drives suddenly dissappeared (luis sanchez: Sat, Mar 1, 2008, 8:07 pm)

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