DVD drive gone awol

Greetings:

I'm running windows Vista on an HP Pavilion. Recently, I went to use my DVD
ROM and discovered the icon was missing from "My computer"......

This happened before with XP, and with XP I removed the appropriate Upper
and Lower filters in the registry, restarted, and all was well.

I tried this with vista and the upper and lower filters were not present.

I ran a system profile and found my drive (HL DT ST DVD RAM GH IOL) was
listed as uninstalled.

Hi,

Does the drive show in the system BIOS? How about the cable it's attached
to - does this show in Device Manager?

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"Steve " <> wrote in message
news:3776221E-9D94-47C4-81F2-...
> Greetings:
>
> I'm running windows Vista on an HP Pavilion. Recently, I went to use my
> DVD
> ROM and discovered the icon was missing from "My computer"......
>
> This happened before with XP, and with XP I removed the appropriate Upper
> and Lower filters in the registry, restarted, and all was well.
>
> I tried this with vista and the upper and lower filters were not present.
>
> I ran a system profile and found my drive (HL DT ST DVD RAM GH IOL) was
> listed as uninstalled.
>

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"Steve " <> wrote in message
news:3776221E-9D94-47C4-81F2-...
> Greetings:
>
> I'm running windows Vista on an HP Pavilion. Recently, I went to use my DVD
> ROM and discovered the icon was missing from "My computer"......
>
> This happened before with XP, and with XP I removed the appropriate Upper
> and Lower filters in the registry, restarted, and all was well.
>
> I tried this with vista and the upper and lower filters were not present.
>
> I ran a system profile and found my drive (HL DT ST DVD RAM GH IOL) was
> listed as uninstalled.
>