subject: CD/DVD Drive Problems Fix - CD/DVD Drive not Found in Windows XP [print this page] CD/DVD Drive Problems Fix - CD/DVD Drive not Found in Windows XP
When booting up the computer, it says that there is no CD/DVD drive detected in your PC. I believe that many people met problems like "CD/DVD Drive not Found in Windows XP" before. And if you can find your CD/DVD drive in the Device Manager, probably you could fix CD/DVD Drive Problems easily.
Step 1 Right-click My Computer, select Properties;choose the Hardware tab and click Device Manager to open the Device Manager sheet.
Step 2 On this sheet find out your CD/DVD-ROM drives and check if there are any errors next to both devices (a yellow exclamation mark, question mark, or a red cross mark).
Step 3 If there are errors, right-click the problematic devices and select Unistall to uninstall them.
Step 4 Restart the computer and Windows will reinstall the drivers for your CD/DVD drive automatically.
But what if even the virtual drive in the Device Manager disappears or the above tips fails? Don't worry! You also can try this following instruction to fix CD/DVD Drive Problems:
Step 1 Create a text file containing the data as below with NOTEPAD.
Step 3 On the bottom in NOTEPAD you should have the following three boxes:
Filename: fixcd.reg
Save as type: all files
Encoding: ANSI.
Step 4 Restart your computer.
Then you will find your missing CD/DVD drives again.
But if you think the steps above confused very much, then you also can try an auto-repair, update and install PC driver tool to save your time and fix CD/DVD drive problems quickly and easily.
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