Gosh, I hope microsoft fixed this between build 5744 and RTM.. I don't seem
to remember this in earlier Vista betas, but I didn't honestly start using
the DVD drive much prior to 5744 when I was more confident that the system
would be stable.
-Rob
"Thomas M. McDonald" <> wrote in message
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>I happened to me and I went to the device manager and installed the driver
>again and now everything is there.
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>> Daemon Tools does the same to mine.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
>> "Frank" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>> Yep, I get that with both my CD and DVD drive...pop the drive open
>>>> (unless it dies all the way of course) and next time you open Exporer,
>>>> it will be there. At least, that is what I have done and noticed.
>>>> Strange to be sure.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> "Rob W" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:C0A57261-EC3F-4649-B1D5-...
>>>>
>>>>> I noticed lately in Vista my Dual-Layer DVD +/- RW (IDE) drive is
>>>>> disappearing.
>>>>>
>>>>> A reboot is usually enough to get it back (a soft reboot, it's not a
>>>>> power-off thing), but it's annoying as all heck, especially now that
>>>>> I'm using Vista regularly -- I j ust installed Visual Studio 2005,
>>>>> Office 2007, and now I'm installing the MSDN Library and for 2 out of
>>>>> 3 of those installs I had to reboot to get the DVD drive visible.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>> On one of my RC2 x86 installs, iTunes destroys all cd/dvd's on the
>>> machine. They have yellow marks in device manager. Deleting iTunes is
>>> the only answer.
>>> Go figure.
>>> Frank
>>
>>
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