asubaseball727 Posted January 11, 2009 CID Share Posted January 11, 2009 I have had my drive working for a while. Today I started CloneCD and it's telling me no DVD drive found. The drive isn't showing up in windows explorer either. But I can open/close the drive. Any ideas what my issue is? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coknuck Posted January 11, 2009 CID Share Posted January 11, 2009 I had a Sony DVD burner that did almost the same thing except it would recognize disks some of the time. I replaced the burner and now its all good. Is it possible the IDE plug came out? Its obvious the power plug is working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buntz Posted January 11, 2009 CID Share Posted January 11, 2009 Does it show up in the BIOS? If it does not show up in the BIOS check your ide cable connection if the connection looks good, try changing the IDE cable. If you have more then one IDE connection on the motherboard try the other connection. If you have another cd or dvd player try connecting it to the computer, if it works the DVD player probably went bad. Some players have drivers , if your does check to make sure they are there. Edit- Still can't type fast enough . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asubaseball727 Posted January 11, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 11, 2009 It shows up in BIOS. It's listed as Pioneer whatever... That's my drive. I feel like it may have been disabled. How would I enable it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted January 11, 2009 CID Share Posted January 11, 2009 Does it show in the Device Manager ? If not try to detect it with Add Hardware in your Control Panel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted January 11, 2009 CID Share Posted January 11, 2009 I had the same problem a while back , I download the latest firmware , but as the computer didn't recognise the cd/dvd device , even after a reboot , I kinda gave up and brought a new one , but it maybe worth removing it , and after a reboot and shut down . refiting it and see if it shows ? , mine never did , although it would open an close , BTW it wasn't recognised in other spare puters either , even set as master, slave or cable select jumper settings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted January 11, 2009 CID Share Posted January 11, 2009 i had the same problem i turned out to be a reg key that was messed up, the thread is somewhere here on the bords Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asubaseball727 Posted January 13, 2009 Author CID Share Posted January 13, 2009 I'll look into the reg-key issue. How did you find out that was the issue/do you have a guide to fix it? It's listed as the secondary master in the bios. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4jc303 Posted January 30, 2009 CID Share Posted January 30, 2009 TRY GOING INTO THE SAFEMODE AND GO TO THE DEVICE MANAGER ON THE TOP MENU CLICK ON VIEW AND SELECT SHOW HIDDEN DEVICES LOOK FOR THE DEVICE IF THERE ARE MORE THE TWO LIST THEM HERE I WILL TELL YOU WHICH ONE TO GET RID OF THE PROBLEM THAT YOU ARE MOST LIKELY HAVING IS GHOST DEVICES GOOD LUCK YOUR FRIEND R4JC303 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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