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Post September 17th, 2007, 4:44 am

I have a sony dvd rw drive and i had disabled it for some reason in the device manager so it had dissapeared. I also remember having enabled it back on and then it had appeared again but now it is not appearing. Cables are connected properly and everything but the drive isnt even showing up in the device manager either now.
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Post September 17th, 2007, 4:44 am

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Post September 17th, 2007, 5:34 am

Verify in disk management that the OS even sees the hardware. It very well could simply be that the device is using a duplicate drive letter. You can change that there.

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Post September 18th, 2007, 1:01 pm

Yep it was getting the power .. Anyway it suddenly starts appearing after reboot.
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Post September 18th, 2007, 1:33 pm

Ohhh...one of those "magical reboots" for windows. :lol:
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Post September 28th, 2007, 3:23 pm

How to access disk management ? Its invisible again.
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Post September 28th, 2007, 3:25 pm

Got it.
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Post October 19th, 2007, 2:32 am

AAgh .. Actually its disappeared again and i dont see the drive in the Disk Management.

Actually the thing is that i have to sometimes disable my Dvd drive because i use Deamon tools and then i have to mount images to play a few games. So thats why i disable the drive. But right now i want to play a cd and its not picking up the drive.
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Post October 19th, 2007, 4:51 am

lol when mine wasn't showing up, i unplugged it booted then shut down, plugged it back in and booted then it was fine, that should make a differance but it does
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Post October 19th, 2007, 5:26 am

Okey ill try that.
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Post October 19th, 2007, 8:11 pm

I bet you always have to restart when you re-enable the drive.
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Post October 20th, 2007, 2:19 am

Yeah it started working now. I did what deathblade told me too.

BTW i restarted like 10 times and it still didnt show the drive. After i did what deathblade told me to, the drive still wasnt visible i had to go in the Device manager and enable it.

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