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Eric, thanks for the opinion. I might agree, but notice that the "problem"
goes away with a power-off re-boot. This issues a reset to the controller,
but it cannot be a controller problem since my DVD drive shares this same
controller and does not "go away". The VAIO is not brand new, but was
originally delivered with WinXP/Home, so I am sure the drives are fully
ATAPI compliant. I was hoping that others have seen and solved this problem
on Pentium IV PCs.
Rick C.
"Eric Niewoehner" <eric.niewoehner@uas.alaska.edu> wrote in message
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> Not familiar with the VAIO,so I have no idea about the age of your
> computer. But in the "old days" CD-drives were known to drop off the radar
> with Windows 9x because they were not fully ATAPI compliant and were not
> readily identified upon startup. For that reason, we had to introduce
> DOS-level drivers to the startup process. That solved the problem. So if
> it is an old drive, that may be the cause.
>
> Other than that, it may be hardware related. Check the cabling and the
> power connection to the drive. If you have an older computer, then it is
> conceivable the CD-drive is beginning to fail or the power supply is not
> providing a steady 5V stream to the drive to provide connection data to
> the operating system.
>
> Rick C. wrote:
>
>> Why does my CD drive keep disappearing from My Computer and the Windows
>> Explorer list? I have to do a power off re-boot to get it back. When it
>> is gone, the open/close button on the front does not work either. A
>> system Re-start does not return it, only a power off cycle re-boot. Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> I am running Win/XP Home/SP2 on a Sony VAIO desktop.
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