i was screwing around last night in the advanced stuff, and somehow i managed to make my cd and dvd drives stop working. I went into to trouble shooting and it said my drivers were missing or corrupted. Go Figure i tried running windows update to grab them through that, but it didnt work. any one have any idea where i can get them?
I believe all optical drives use windows drivers, so you could try removing the two drives from Device Manager, reboot the computer, when it has reloaded, windows will find the drives again and load the respective drivers for them.
You might want to wait for a more definate answer though before doing this.
I believe all optical drives use windows drivers, so you could try removing the two drives from Device Manager, reboot the computer, when it has reloaded, windows will find the drives again and load the respective drivers for them.
You might want to wait for a more definate answer though before doing this.
neither worked.. i am going to find the cds that came with the computer and see if they have the drivers on there. if not im lost for a solution. i even went on dells site and pulled up my computer and downloaded the drivers, but they said no devices were found...
neither worked.. i am going to find the cds that came with the computer and see if they have the drivers on there. if not im lost for a solution. i even went on dells site and pulled up my computer and downloaded the drivers, but they said no devices were found...
sorry for the slow responses, but what i think did it was that i was messing around with my windows components and succesfully deleted all of them. and me not thinking straight, i said i would look for the dell cds right? well even if i found them, my computer wouldnt be able to use them because the drives dont work, DOH! so, ill check that link you posted and keep looking into the problem.
Edit: also, for somereason, ive tried system restore and it never works, it alwase says it failed to restore. ive tried multiple times.
yes, i think something is fishy, i dont believe it to be the hardware. and the system restore has alwase been like that, i am going to call dell today and ill post here what happens.
yes, i think something is fishy, i dont believe it to be the hardware. and the system restore has alwase been like that, i am going to call dell today and ill post here what happens.
i had the same thing happen to me before. sometimes your drives wont appear after u uninstall a burning app. this worked for me.
Start Registry Editor (Start, Run and type in regedit then click)
Find "UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters" (and "UpperFilters.bak" "LowerFilters.bak", if they exist) value under the following key in the registry, and delete it:
yes, that worked. score! actually i chatted with a dell techy and they told me to delete those, and when the computer started up, do some stuff in the bios (alt f) or something, then save and exit. its working now, just have to find my burner programs. thanks for the help everyone!