cd drive dissapears

cheech79 · Post by **cheech79** » September 15th, 2005, 12:39 am

i installed a pc game a few weeks ago and havent used the cd drive since i try to install something and theres no drive how could it vanish for no reason? windows xp home is what im using

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » September 15th, 2005, 2:03 pm

Watch when you start up the computer, see if it's listed. Then check the cables and the power plug, they may be loose.

mitchb13 · Post by **mitchb13** » September 15th, 2005, 6:45 pm

Do you have Nero, Norton Antivirus or Easy CD Creator installed?

cheech79 · Post by **cheech79** » September 15th, 2005, 7:00 pm

i dont have any of those installed when i go to device manager it shows but theres a yellow exclamation point beside it i unninstall the thing and restart my computer ,it detects it but doesnt know what to do when i click on properties it says Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) the troubleshooting part doesnt help i checked connections and everything looks fine

mitchb13 · Post by **mitchb13** » September 15th, 2005, 9:42 pm

Well, in that case you need to download the drivers and reinstall it. What model is the drive and what operating system are you using?

cheech79 · Post by **cheech79** » September 16th, 2005, 3:15 am

samsung cd-r/rw sw-232b and im using windows xp home

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » September 16th, 2005, 3:07 pm

You should be able to download the lates firmware here, see if this helps you. http://www.samsung.com/search/search.as ... =0&x=9&y=4#

cheech79 · Post by **cheech79** » September 16th, 2005, 10:18 pm

i tried but it was a bin file and it wouldnt extract correctly keeps making 2 empty folders

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » September 17th, 2005, 9:00 pm

Looks like the file is bad on the website, by any chance do you have a driver disk that came with the drive?

cheech79 · Post by **cheech79** » September 18th, 2005, 11:45 pm

no cd ill search the internet and see if theres one somewhere that works

cheech79 · Post by **cheech79** » September 19th, 2005, 12:09 am

i mean no disk

cheech79 · Post by **cheech79** » September 25th, 2005, 1:50 pm

cant find any

richh0323 · Post by **richh0323** » September 25th, 2005, 3:33 pm

Recheck the cables and if that doesn't help I would try a new CD Drive. Chanches are it's defective. I had one die on me right after installing Windows updates. For a few hours I thought was the updates, but when I put it back in the old computer, with the original hard drive I found it no good, so I just bought a new one problem solved.

stitches · Post by **stitches** » December 31st, 2005, 3:40 am

eh mitch, i am having problems with my cd-rw/dvd rom drive, and i was just wondering why you asked if nero was installed, maybe you can help me out, running xp home and the drive is a hitachi lg gcc-4521b. thanks.

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