Strange Vista Problem - DVD writer has completely disappeared

WTH?

This is exactly what happened:

I have 2 hard drives, I wanted some more space on C:\ so I merged
another partition (on the same physical drive obviously) now my Sony DVD
writer has completely disappeared, in device manager nothing. BIOS -
nothing

This has been going on for 5+ days, after doing a lot of searching here
and in other forums/sites, the windows support article that mentions
editing the regisrt values of "UpperFilter" and "LowerFilter" were
useless because those values are not present in my registry :shock:

I'm about to shut down physically remove the drive altogether but I
wanted some feedback first.


Please help anyone.

Thanks in advance.


--
funboy

Hi,

Start with the BIOS. If it isn't seen there, it's not going to be seen in
Windows. Check your detection settings for that cable, you may also need to
shutdown and reseat it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"funboy" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> WTH?
>
> This is exactly what happened:
>
> I have 2 hard drives, I wanted some more space on C:\ so I merged
> another partition (on the same physical drive obviously) now my Sony DVD
> writer has completely disappeared, in device manager nothing. BIOS -
> nothing
>
> This has been going on for 5+ days, after doing a lot of searching here
> and in other forums/sites, the windows support article that mentions
> editing the regisrt values of "UpperFilter" and "LowerFilter" were
> useless because those values are not present in my registry :shock:
>
> I'm about to shut down physically remove the drive altogether but I
> wanted some feedback first.
>
>
> Please help anyone.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> funboy

Have you been inside your computer lately? You may have joggled a connecting
cable. Open the box again then unplug and re-plug the cables to your DVD
burner. It it works fine. If not, try replacing the DVD ribbon cable.

If you have 2 players make sure they are set as master/slave or you can set
the drives for "cable select".

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"funboy" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> WTH?
>
> This is exactly what happened:
>
> I have 2 hard drives, I wanted some more space on C:\ so I merged
> another partition (on the same physical drive obviously) now my Sony DVD
> writer has completely disappeared, in device manager nothing. BIOS -
> nothing
>
> This has been going on for 5+ days, after doing a lot of searching here
> and in other forums/sites, the windows support article that mentions
> editing the regisrt values of "UpperFilter" and "LowerFilter" were
> useless because those values are not present in my registry :shock:
>
> I'm about to shut down physically remove the drive altogether but I
> wanted some feedback first.
>
>
> Please help anyone.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> funboy

And if it is SATA, it is especially easy to have a loose connection. Reseat
at both ends.

"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
news:O$...
> Have you been inside your computer lately? You may have joggled a
> connecting cable. Open the box again then unplug and re-plug the cables to
> your DVD burner. It it works fine. If not, try replacing the DVD ribbon
> cable.
>
> If you have 2 players make sure they are set as master/slave or you can
> set the drives for "cable select".
>
> --
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "funboy" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> WTH?
>>
>> This is exactly what happened:
>>
>> I have 2 hard drives, I wanted some more space on C:\ so I merged
>> another partition (on the same physical drive obviously) now my Sony DVD
>> writer has completely disappeared, in device manager nothing. BIOS -
>> nothing
>>
>> This has been going on for 5+ days, after doing a lot of searching here
>> and in other forums/sites, the windows support article that mentions
>> editing the regisrt values of "UpperFilter" and "LowerFilter" were
>> useless because those values are not present in my registry :shock:
>>
>> I'm about to shut down physically remove the drive altogether but I
>> wanted some feedback first.
>>
>>
>> Please help anyone.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> --
>> funboy
>