CD and DVD drives undetected at Boot

[JoeTheOdd]

My windows XP computer won't detect my CD and DVD drives when I start up. I just shut down, uninstalled my second modem (it was for Linux testing), and started up, and they were gone.

 

[JoeTheOdd]

Knocked down to page two within 24 hours? Yikes!

*bump*

 

[Samm]

This seems to be quite a common problem with XP. Try this fix :

Start Registry Editor - Go to Start-->Run, type regedit

Locate the UpperFilters & LowerFilters value under the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Back up the entry first by highlighting the {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}. Then go up to, File and select Export, enter any name you want and save it where you can find it.

Now delete 2 entrys within {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Highlight {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} and look on the right for the entry, "UpperFilters", right click on it and select delete. Now do the same for LowerFilters

Now reboot & scan for new hardware if XP doesn't automatically detect the drives.

If this doesn't work or goes wrong, you can just import the saved key back into the registry.

 

[emeraldice]

I may be wrong, but if it sees the drives but doesn't read the CDs or anything, it's the cable. Get a new cable or the cable's loose.

 

[Apokalipse]

it can be the cables or the jumpers. if both are set to master, it can cause problems

or it could even be the drivers. download another set of ATAPI drivers and see if that works

 

[JoeTheOdd]

I just reformatted because my entire computer was bugging out anyhow.

 

[Sui]

Evil linux stole them from xp!... no, uhm are they in the device manager?

 

[JoeTheOdd]

I just reformatted because my entire computer was bugging out anyhow.