Re: Invisible DVD Drive

Hello Wes & Steve:
No amount of tweaking could get the J: drive back in the Right Pane of
WinExpl.
I tried Acronis Disk Director and renamed the last drive to leave a "vacant"
place in the hope the DVD drive will appear again. This failed too.
As a last resort I deleted the Partition H: I had created before and
amazingly, there was the blessed Drive J: in all its splendour! I cannot
understand WinXP - so powerful yet causes such quirks.

Twanny
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"Wesley Vogel" wrote:

> Restore CD/DVD Drives to Explorer
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_cd_dvd_fix.htm
>
> My CD drives have vanished (from Explorer, Device Manager, etc.)
> http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
>
> Restore Missing CD Drive
> http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip
>
> --
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
>
> Wes
> MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
>
> In news:A503493F-732F-4EE9-8DB0-890F9C92E74E@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Twanny <Evenstar@xxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
> > The icon for my DVD Drive (J:) does not appear in Windows Explorer.
> > This happened after I created a small partition on my Secondary HDD for
> > the PageFIle.
> > It works normally but I have to manually enter the path in the address
> > bar. It then appears in WinEx, but is lost again when closed.
> > The BIOS boot up session show both DVD drives.
> > Any suggestions to put this right?
> > ---------------------------------
> > System:
> > Intel Pentium IIIE, 650 MHz
> > Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
> > MBO: VIA VT82C693A Apollo Pro133
> > RAM 448 MB (SDRAM)
> > Disk Drive WDC WD800BB (74 GB, IDE)
> > Disk Drive SAMSUNG SV2044D (18 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/66)
> > Optical Drive PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D
> > Optical Drive SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621
> > BIOS Award Software International, Inc.
> > DMI Version 4.51 PG
> > Video RADEON 7000 SERIES(64 MB)
> > Audio Creative SB Live! Sound Card
> > USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB
> >
> > --
> > Rgds
> > "Twanny"
>
.

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