Starting today any disc drive found by the computer has been inoperable. It does not show up in windows explorer as a drive.
The computer was setup with a main HD partition with the drive letter C. The built in dvd/cdrw drive was assigned D. There was a small HD partition called E.
Today the only drives recognized in my computer are C and E. Any attempt to read a CD placed in the disc drive fails. It does not even see a drive.
Going to the device manager the driver is up to date and installed and the device is listed. There is a yellow error exclamation mark next to it however, and it says the driver may be corrupt.
I have uninstalled then reinstalled this disc drive driver, and the problem does not seem to lie there.
I am led to believe the problem is larger, becuse for the past year I have used Daemon tools and had a simulated disc drive on the computer which worked perfectly. It too is unable to be accessed and has the yellow exclamation point in device manager while not showing up in my computer.
Also, I have a U3 compatable usb device that in order to autorun creates a temporary CD drive in order to autorun its software. This too is non functional, showing up in the device manager when I plug it in but not functioning or showing up in My Computer as usual.
24 Hours ago the CD drive was used to rip 5 CDs into iTunes and then those were transferred to an iPod. Since the next time the computer was run the drives have not been active.
This problem is most perplexing and any help or ideas anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
The computer was setup with a main HD partition with the drive letter C. The built in dvd/cdrw drive was assigned D. There was a small HD partition called E.
Today the only drives recognized in my computer are C and E. Any attempt to read a CD placed in the disc drive fails. It does not even see a drive.
Going to the device manager the driver is up to date and installed and the device is listed. There is a yellow error exclamation mark next to it however, and it says the driver may be corrupt.
I have uninstalled then reinstalled this disc drive driver, and the problem does not seem to lie there.
I am led to believe the problem is larger, becuse for the past year I have used Daemon tools and had a simulated disc drive on the computer which worked perfectly. It too is unable to be accessed and has the yellow exclamation point in device manager while not showing up in my computer.
Also, I have a U3 compatable usb device that in order to autorun creates a temporary CD drive in order to autorun its software. This too is non functional, showing up in the device manager when I plug it in but not functioning or showing up in My Computer as usual.
24 Hours ago the CD drive was used to rip 5 CDs into iTunes and then those were transferred to an iPod. Since the next time the computer was run the drives have not been active.
This problem is most perplexing and any help or ideas anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.