CDRom Drive not visible

[Kaushal Hiwarkar]

Hi i am facing a problem I have just installed XPSP2 7 days ago now today when I started my computer It doest show my CD Rom drive. My cdrom is allright. I have checked by booting my system through CDRom it is booting. I think some registry problem. Help me ?

[CA50]

Check if ur cd drive is disabled in the device manager.

[prem4u]

i have faced same problem in my friend's PC..i tried device manager..but it was enable there. i have checked connection too.
after all fail try. we decided to format it. after format icd drives are showing properly. but again after some days same problem we faced..

[CA50]

how did u format the optical drive. plz xplain. May be u hv got corrupted windows files due 2 which hv experience such probs

[saurabh kakkar]

i too had same prob. once formatted and solved

[Liggy]

Driver, check to see if there is a driver for your CD-rom. is it displayed in device manager? may have to check unknow devices (?) it may be listed there.

[Vishal Gupta]

Pls try this:

Open regedit and goto:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Now delete upper filter & lower filter if present. Restart the system and now it should solve the problem.

[Liggy]

Originally Posted by Vishal Gupta

Pls try this:

Open regedit and goto:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Now delete upper filter & lower filter if present. Restart the system and now it should solve the problem.

is that the only way to clear the upper/lower filters? I was actually researching that (for Kaushal Hiwarkar) but for got how to do it, and now you beat me to it!