re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner Friday, May 15, 2009 at 7:56 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Neil Murphy (5 messages posted) No joy, but I did learn something. The SECOND time I re-enabled them in the BIOS they were re-installed by Windows. That to me means that they weren't detected the first time, which says to me that I have an IDE controller going bad. Neil H M On Monday, May 11, 2009 at 8:39 pm, Jacob6601 wrote: >Try this (change "drives" to singular): >1. Remove the drives from device manager. Re-boot, entering BIOS. >2. Remove the drives from BIOS - select none. >3. Re-boot into windows. If it finds the drives (check device manager) remove them >again, even if they appear to be working. >4. Re-boot, enter BIOS and re-enable them. Let windows load. Written in response to: re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Jacob6601: Monday, May 11, 2009 at 8:39 pm) Responses to this message: re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Jacob6601: Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 8:05 am) All messages in this thread [show all] CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Neil Murphy: Sun, May 10, 2009, 3:35 pm) re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Special-K: Sun, May 10, 2009, 5:21 pm) re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Neil Murphy: Mon, May 11, 2009, 2:57 pm) re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Quasimodo: Mon, May 11, 2009, 9:03 am) re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Neil Murphy: Mon, May 11, 2009, 2:52 pm) re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Jacob6601: Mon, May 11, 2009, 8:39 pm) re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Neil Murphy: Fri, May 15, 2009, 7:56 pm) re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Jacob6601: Sat, May 16, 2009, 8:05 am) re: CD is missing from my DVD/CD burner (Neil Murphy: Sun, May 17, 2009, 6:39 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum