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04/06/2008 11:12:00 AM · #1 |
| It appears my E drive (CD rom/burner) has disappeared from my computer! Can anyone walk me through remapping it? PLEASE! It's driving me crazy. I followed some instructions from microsoft, but it didn't help. I've been all over the web and can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I know it's simple, I just can't remember how to do it. Thanks in advance!! |
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04/06/2008 11:20:21 AM · #2 |
| Is it showing up in your device manager? If it is not, you may need to check the physical connections to the device and ensure they are plugged in. Does it open and close? If it does check Computer Management>Storage>Removable Storage in the Control Panel. Do you have Tweak UI or XP? Ensure that the drive is available there as well. Oh yeah - are you using Windows or Mac? These instructions are for Windows XP. |
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04/06/2008 11:23:33 AM · #3 |
It doesn't show up in the device manager at all, and it doesn't open and close. I'm using Windows XP. It's an internal CD rom, so it wouldn't just come unplugged by itself. It just somehow deleted itself from my computer.
eta: Is it possible it just died?
Message edited by author 2008-04-06 11:24:25. |
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04/06/2008 11:58:18 AM · #4 |
Kelli,
I might suggest the following:
1. Turn the power to your computer completely off
2. Turn the power back on and watch the lights on the front of the CD player very carefully
3. As the BIOS registers the device, the lights should blink
4. If the lights DO NOT blink at all, then you are in the position of opening up your computer and checking the cables. At this stage, the issue is independent of the operating system and is a hardware issue.
5. Once the cables have been unplugged and reconnected securely (best to clean out any dust bunnies inside the PC as well!), and the lights STILL do not blink, then the device will have to be replaced. You may also check the device in the BIOS by pressing the setup key (F10 or F2 or as specified on boot up by your PC).
If the lights DO blink and the BIOS does register the device, then the issue resides within the OS and may be a corrupted device driver or a conflict with another device. At this point, the device may be tested with a boot disk with generic CD drivers, and more details about your system and the CD drive itself will need to be provided.
Good Luck and keep us posted!
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04/06/2008 12:12:15 PM · #5 |
As TMHalling suggested, you may have another drive using the same letter. I frequently have that happen due to numerous memory cards and flash drives sometimes using conflicting letters. If it shows up in the disk management panel, then it is simply a matter of drive assignments, and you can simply change the drive letter it's using to an available letter, and it will show up. If it does not show up there, then check the BIOS screen when the computer is booting to see if it is identified on startup. If you don't even see it shown there, the you either have a loose connector or a drive failure. If it has failed, replacement drives are now pretty cheap.
Message edited by author 2008-04-06 12:13:46.
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04/06/2008 12:23:24 PM · #6 |
I have had this battle a few times with machines I built. Assigning letters can be tricky when you have multiple drives on the computer. Have you added any new harddrives or even a floppy drive recently?
Also do you have another computer that you could swap the drive over to and make sure it is not the drive itself. I have had had a couple of CD drives and a DVD burner pull this on me once out of the 3 the CD drive had finished its tour of duty. The other times were do to me adding a new hard drive or removing one. It threw the drive letters out of wack.
As said above or below pending on how you have your messages set. Check the connections and maybe make sure the jumper is on the correct pins. I have had one of those vibrate off once.
something else you could try is unplug the drive all the cables, start the computer shut it down hook the cables back to the drive and start it up again, You OS might just fix the problem on it's own.
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04/08/2008 08:10:23 PM · #7 |
To all who offered advice, thanks. LOL! With no lights and it not opening, I believed it must have come disconnected somehow (though I couldn't imagine how). My computer has been turned off and on mulitple times since then. Still no lights, won't open. I put taking the tower apart on my list of things to do, but haven't gotten around to it. So tonight, I rebooted my computer and low and behold, it magically works again. So I burned a CD of images just to be sure, and it gave me an error message about Itunes, which apparently my daughter downloaded. I'm guessing it was a conflict with my cd burning software. Anyway, thanks for all the advice.
Message edited by author 2008-04-08 20:10:57. |
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