Missing CD Drive After Format?

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I have a LiteOn CD-RW Drive (SOHR-5239V06C) and I have reformatted my computer, now my CD-RW Drive won't read, nor get detected by my computer. My DVD-RW drive is working great though. I have seen somewhere that there are registry tweaks that will make my CD-RW drive to be recognized, and usable. I know this drive works, I can open it, put a CD in, listen to it spin up and down, but Windows will not detect it. My question is, does anyone know of these registry hacks? Or another way to make it recognized?

 

[office politics]

is the cd drive detected by the bios?

is a driver loaded? try uninstall & reboot.

try reseating ribbon and power cables.

 

[KSoD]

Go to device manager and search for hardware changes.

 

[pmctech]

make sure the pins where the ribbon cable pluggs in are not bent and the cable itself

 

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I got it fixed, nothing was wrong with the cables. I don't know why Windows didn't recognize it. I tried to check for hardware changes, but it still wasn't detected. I took the drive out, and booted up the computer with only my DVD+-RW drive. Then, I just didn't want the drive to sit around (4 Little kids running around)., so I popped it back in, hooked it up, turn on the computer, and then I got both drives to work. Both showed 'Boot From CD Press Any Key' (Had 2 Bootable Discs in them). Windows Detected them and now I'm here.

 

[office politics]

nothing was wrong with the cables.

you reseated the cables.

kthxbye.

 

[__Camouflage__]

you reseated the cables.

kthxbye.

No, nothing was wrong with the cables. As I stated in the topic of this thread, the CD-Drive wasn't recognized by Windows, AFTER A FORMAT! Before I formatted it, it was working fine, didn't take out/change anything between format, so how could it be the cables? ERRRR??!?!??

KTHXBYE!