DVD drive uninstalled??

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.

Can anyone help with this problem? I would be most grateful for any
nfo. -Steve

Try right click on computer, select manage, select disk management to see if
it shows up.

"Steve " <> wrote in message
news:8BEFC489-3B99-41E1-8495-...
> 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.
>
> Can anyone help with this problem? I would be most grateful for any
> fo. -Steve

Again right click computer and select manage, select device manager and disk
drives to see if the DVD drive shows a down arrow meaning it is disabled.
If it is, right click it and enable it.

"Steve " <> wrote in message
news:8BEFC489-3B99-41E1-8495-...
> 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.
>
> Can anyone help with this problem? I would be most grateful for any
> fo. -Steve

When you start the computer, go into BIOS (hardware) setup mode. Does the
drive show up there? If not it may have a loose connector or may have
failed.

"Steve " <> wrote in message
news:8BEFC489-3B99-41E1-8495-...
> 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.
>
> Can anyone help with this problem? I would be most grateful for any
> fo. -Steve

It sounds like the drive may have failed,
If you have access to an older computer running XP you might try it there.

"Steve " <> wrote in message
news:8BEFC489-3B99-41E1-8495-...
> 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.
>
> Can anyone help with this problem? I would be most grateful for any
> fo. -Steve

Did you Upgrade to Vista from XP recently ?

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Peter

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"Steve " <> wrote in message
news:8BEFC489-3B99-41E1-8495-...
> 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.
>
> Can anyone help with this problem? I would be most grateful for any nfo. -Steve