missing DVD drives

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After upgrading from 2000 to XP Pro (why did I do it???) my DVD drives have gone MIA. I had Easy CD Creator 5 installed, which I removed. I have the latest motherboard drivers. I tried the registry fix suggested by Microsoft and others on this forum (delete filters), but it had no effect. I cannot reinstall drivers because the drives do not appear in the device manager at all. What to do now?

 

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See Alex Nichol's magic fix at
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
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Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
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"wilinsky" <wilinsky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After upgrading from 2000 to XP Pro (why did I do it???) my DVD drives
> have gone MIA. I had Easy CD Creator 5 installed, which I removed. I have
> the latest motherboard drivers. I tried the registry fix suggested by
> Microsoft and others on this forum (delete filters), but it had no effect.
> I cannot reinstall drivers because the drives do not appear in the device
> manager at all. What to do now?

 

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Try the famous Doug Knox make the cd/dvd driver reappear trick
http://www.dougknox.com/ WinXP Fixes 10 down from top Rt
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"wilinsky" <wilinsky@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E0BB7CD6-3854-4C45-9FD5-E3E4D68DF1F7@microsoft.com...
> After upgrading from 2000 to XP Pro (why did I do it???) my DVD drives
have gone MIA. I had Easy CD Creator 5 installed, which I removed. I have
the latest motherboard drivers. I tried the registry fix suggested by
Microsoft and others on this forum (delete filters), but it had no effect. I
cannot reinstall drivers because the drives do not appear in the device
manager at all. What to do now?

 

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Thanks for the suggestions. The registry fix didn't work and I lost patience and reinstalled XP (repaired the installation). That fixed it. But the link on CD burning was valuable in its own right, so thanks for that.