Where did my D: drive go???

[fkdup74]

Also, are there any risks to changing the drive letter? I don't wanna have to reformat again.

no risk. at leat not as far as I've experienced with opticals, extra HDDS, etc.
you only screw yourself if there's programs installed that call to that directory
just don't go trying to f00k about with your C: drive and you should be OK

[Skiz]

Since his ? mark is under Drives with Removable Storage we can assume it's a cd drive...
Skizo, have you check to see if the drive shows in disk management or device manager?

Sorry for not responding to replies earlier, I've been out of town.

Yes, the drive is a disc drive. It's a DVD-RW to be specific. I did check 'Disc Management' but I didn't see it there.

[Virtualbody1234]

Does it show up in the Device Manager?

Does it show up in the BIOS?

[Skiz]

Does it show up in the Device Manager?

Does it show up in the BIOS?

It shows up in the 'Device Manager' with a yellow "!". When I click on it, the 'Device Status', it states:

Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

[tesco]

Try right click->uninstall.

Also see if it shows up in your BIOS.

[Skiz]

Try right click->uninstall.

Also see if it shows up in your BIOS.

Can you elaborate on why I would want to uninstall it? So I could try reinstalling it maybe? I don't have any driver discs or anything.

I'll reboot and check BIOS.

EDIT: Yes, it appears in BIOS under IDE: SECONDARY MASTER

[fkdup74]

you know, this problem seems to be well documented
google is a bitch for some poeple though

[Virtualbody1234]

Uninstall it and reboot.

Windows will detect it when it restarts and it will reinstall it.

[Skiz]

Uninstall it and reboot.

Windows will detect it when it restarts and it will reinstall it.

Uninstalled.
Rebooted.
Bubble opens that states Windows Found New Hardware. Then bubble opens that states New Hardware Found: NEC DVD-RW. But it still doesn't appear in My Computer and the Device Manager is giving me the same statement/error that I listed above in post #24

EDIT: This sounds similar - http://www.computing.net/windows2000...rum/63399.html Any opinions?

[fkdup74]

EDIT: This sounds similar - http://www.computing.net/windows2000...rum/63399.html Any opinions?

sounds way similar if you ask me

-edit- Skizo and Nick, maybe this will help (maybe not, but hey...)
http://www.theeldergeek.com/restore_..._dvd_drive.htm

way back on page 1 of this thread that was
if you had looked at that at all,
you would have seen that there is a link...
to a different page with the same fix
hell I probably saw about half a dozen pages with that info,
on the first page of google hits even