Help! My DVD-RW Drive Disappeared from My Computer !?

Question

It is nowhere to be found neither in the BIOS or Device Manager.

I have another drive Samsung CD-RW/DVD-R and its working fine (well not fine but that's why I need that other drive) .

Answer 1

hmmm... many possibilities... one very common is the drive letter mess up.

Here to findout more from MS support

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844/e...

you may follow the following instruction:

How to change a drive letter

To change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or on a volume, follow these steps:

1. Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.

2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.

3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.

4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.

5. Click Change.

6. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK.

7. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.

The drive letter of the drive, the partition, or the volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter appears in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the Disk Management tool.

Answer 2

go to this site http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edi... download the patch

save the item to desktop

right click on the on the new file select open

click ok restart the computer if you do not see the icon on your computer.this is for the chages to take effect