LightScribe CD/DVD RW Drive not detected in Vista

I have a HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop that I got 3 months ago. It runs
Vista Home Premium. It has a Lightscribe CD/DVD RW drive. It had worked
splendidly up until a week ago. I installed Alcohol 120% so I could do
some DVD ripping. In order to do this, it created a virtual drive on my
computer. This worked fine for several days. After some time though, I
restarted the computer and the drive wouldn't read my CDs or DVDs. The
only drive that would show up in my computer was the virtual drive. It
appeared as though the virtual drive had somehow taken over the E:
drive where my legitimate drive was. I removed the virtual drive using
both alcohol and the device manager. I have now uninstalled alcohol all
together. The drive is not detected at all in My Computer. BIOS, on the
other hand, appears to recognize the drive. I have done a fair amount
of research on my own to no avail. The XP patch that involves removing
UpperFilters and LowerFilters from the registry didn't work since those
files aren't in my registry. Any help is greatly greatly appreciated.


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I just rechecked my BIOS, and it does not detect my CD/DVD drive. I
don't know if that effects anything...


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wah484 <> wrote:

> I just rechecked my BIOS, and it does not detect my CD/DVD drive. I
> don't know if that effects anything...

Yes, it does. If the BIOS says you don't have a drive then Windows
won't recognize it.

Turn off the power, open up the box and check the cables, etc. then
power up again, enter the BIOS and see if it's back. If not, you have
a bad CD/DVD drive cable (bad!) a bad CD/DVD drive (worse) or a bad
motherboard (really bad!)


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wah484 wrote:
> I just rechecked my BIOS, and it does not detect my CD/DVD drive. I
> don't know if that effects anything...
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Okay, well if the BIOS isn't seeing it then the problem is a bit worse.
In the BIOS is there a setting like "Plug and play O/S" Y/N.

If so try setting that to No and reset the config data if you can find a
setting for that. Modern BIOS usually have a bit of text help in them
but they differ so can't tell you where to look for these exactly.

Reboot and see if the drive comes back in the next BIOS listing.

You should have some settings for manual and "Autodetect" so try them,
scroll through and select an option, you can always set it back to
Auto... even try setting it wrong to change it then reboot and back to Auto.

None of this may work but have seen odd things work on occasions that
are definitely not documented in BIOS docs.

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Yah, that would impact if that drive shows up in your OS, whether that OS is
Vista, XP, or Ubuntu.

Fix the BIOS issue. Once that is fixed, post back. (I see others have posted
detailed instructions on trying to fix the BIOS issue... good luck with
that. For real.)

Lang

Thank y'all for the advice. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get
any of it to work.
If it helps, my computer is running Phoenix TrustedCore Bios version
F.09. I have gone into BIOS and can't find any option to modify plug
and play.
I also did a system restore as far back as I could. That made my
virtual drive reappear in My Computer, but did nothing good for the
actual CD Drive.
I also opened up my laptop case, but there is no room to really do
anything in there. I saw what looked like the right cord and i pushed
it in lightly, but i couldn't actually pull it out and put it back in
because I am afraid of both breaking something and not being able to
get it to fit in just right. That is the problem with laptops I guess.
Thanks everyone for all you contributions thus far. any more are
greatly greatly appreciated. I have been probing the depths of the
internet trying to find any other help on what to do and have come up
unsuccessful.
I think I am going to try taking the laptop into Best Buy since they
provide "HP Service"... Wish me luck on that one. If you have any
advice before I make that potentially fatal decision, let me know.


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