windows help needed please

[Soup Dragon]

Help!

i have reinstalled windows xp home and it is now refusing to believe i have a cd/dvd drive! even though it has just used it to install it's own files.

wtf!!!!

i have altered the registry, read microsoft knowledge base, downloaded a vb script that made nortons shit it's pants when i ran it! re-reinstalled win xp(using the drive it refuses to acknowledge)from dos. nothings works.

answers on a postcard please or type them below.


thanks in advance

soup

[TheTrout]

Soup, A: Please don't use "Dark" text, as it was a nightmare to read on the forum theme I use :(. B: Try installing something like Nero. CD Drives use a thing called an ASPI layer. Although I've never heard of XP not recognising a drive, I have come across it in ME, and it was always the Apsi layer that was at fault. Best I can suggest for the mo (More lucidity might come tomorow when the wine affect wears off) :)

[the Adster]

You could also try uninstalling the CD drive from Device Manager, reboot the machine and see if it 'magically' reappears in the hardware list. I had a similar thing happen to me a couple of months back and this fixed the problem. I'm not going to bed before I go on holiday so will periodically check the forums during the night.

[M@rv!n]

Check also that the Bios is picking it up as an attached IDE device

[Soup Dragon]

sorry didn't realise i was using dark text!

it appears to have fixed itself now, pc crashed whilst installing updates and when restarted drive was recognised.

thx for the help:cool: