HELP My cd and dvd drives that disappeared

danno · Post by **danno** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:00 pm

I started my system and my drives have disappeared from the my computer and the device manager. HELP

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:02 pm

Are they detected in the bios?

danno · Post by **danno** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:49 pm

sure does

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:56 pm

Reinstall the chipset drivers!

danno · Post by **danno** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:58 pm

with out disc drives, how?

danno · Post by **danno** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:59 pm

I tried to down load the JMicro driver that I think is the problem but it won't open. Its a .rtr file !@#!$%%

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:10 pm

Are you saying the OS HDD won't boot? Then how can device manager even load? If you can get into the OS, you should be able to update/reinstall drivers via device manager manually or using a simple .exe setup file.

Download the chipset drivers again and make sure your not using a download manager as that can cause corrupt downloads.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:13 pm

download the latest chipset drivers.. Usually the ones on the CD are old versions anyway.

danno · Post by **danno** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:15 pm

No the OS boots fine. Its just that only the hard drives show up and not the DVDs

danno · Post by **danno** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:48 pm

I finally got the drivers and they are working now. Thanks