vista cant see my cd/dvd drive

tried various reg edit options that ive seen on google. also uninstalled nero, but it's still not there.

theres power going to it, it just isnt seen or recognised within vista.
 
ALLI said:
tried various reg edit options that ive seen on google. also uninstalled nero, but it's still not there.

theres power going to it, it just isnt seen or recognised within vista.
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Vista is very picky with DVD/CD drives. I couldn't install X64 ultimate with my newer drive DVD-RW, and had to dig out my old DVD drive in order to install it. Yet my DVD-RW works fine now vista is installed?!?

Has it been working previously and then just dissappeared?
 
Yup.

Had to swap motherboards, and the new one is slightly different (gone from a p35-ds3r to a p35c-ds3r). It worked fine before the swap. I even had an IDE on the same channel, both drives on cable select. Now I've got the new mobo, I've got rid of the IDE and put it in an external caddy leaving the CD/DVD on it's own channel.

The green light flashes on it when I put a disc in, and in Explorer it shows the drive, but when you click on it, it asks for media - when there's already a disc in.

However, when I go to My Comp, it only shows my HDD in the list and no optical drive.

Have tried a new IDE cable, setting the drive to master, slave and back again to cable select.

It worked fine before. :(
 
Hey ALLI, can you see your DVD Drive under Device Manager? If you can right click on your Drive and then go to properties, then navigate to the Driver tab and click uninstall and confirm the prompt. After you have done that, restart your machine and then hopefully Vista will be able to pick up your DVD Drive again. :)
 
The only device showing in device manager is a SCSI cd rom which I believe is Daemon Tools.

Reckon I should uninstall it?
 
Hey ALLI, if you don’t need the SCSI and you are sure it is to do with Daemon Tools then uninstall it.

You said that you have tried a couple of registry options already. Now just in case you haven’t already tried this one, hopefully the one below will be able to help you out.

Open up the Registry Editor window and then find the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11*CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Once you have found it, In the right panel you should see something along the lines of "UpperFilter" and "LowerFilter" you want to click on each of the filter keys and delete them both. Click yes when it asks to confirm if you wish to delete the key and then restart your machine. :)
 
Already done that.

I had a lowerfilter but no upper. Still, did as the ms tech page said.

I can see the drive in the bios, but not in windows. It's really annoying now.
 
Hmm...

Changed a BIOS setting so that the board uses the onchip gigabyte sata and the cd drive now works. only problem is it seems to slow my whole system down! takes forever to read and open the cd or dvd in the drive.
 
some progress

i can now see the drive in vista.

however, it will not open cds or dvds with data on, but it will open blank dvds!

step in the right direction
 
Am I missing some glaring BIOS setting?

It's a Gigabyte board, with the Onboard SATA control off. I have One SATA2 drive and one IDE CD/DVDROM. BIOS says RAID/IDE

It's really getting to me now. I don't understand.

Could someone with a Sammy drive copy their reg key (posted above) so I can compare.
 
still nada.

just copying all my important files over to an external drive and im gonna reformat and start over.
 
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