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    Help please! CD rom drive not working on DV5T

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Xythil, Jul 22, 2009.

  1. Xythil

    Xythil Notebook Consultant

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    It is not showing up in explorer. When I pop in a DVD nothing shows up on screen. The drive itself does activate but nothing happens in windows/.


    In device manager it shows 2 exclamation marks next to 2 different drives?!?! Why? I only have one drive.

    One is

    EFGJGBK QBGT2FCTIB SCSI CDROM DEVICE

    other one is

    TSSTCORP CDDVDW TS-L633A

    I tried to find/download/install new drivers but Cant find them ANYWEHRE, even HPs own drive site for the dv5t doesnt have JACK . Thanks HP.
     
    Xythil, Jul 22, 2009
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    Xythil Notebook Consultant

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    Ok I fixed it... sort of..

    For some reason 3 FREAKING drives show up on my laptop when I only have 1 drive on my laptop.

    I followed these instructions http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461
    I deleted the upper and lower and rebooted. So my drives showed up and worked. I am watching a DVD right now.

    However. Why are 3 blood drives showing up now?

    They are both labeled as D: drive and the other oen is labeled as E: drive. Though I think maybe the E: Drive is the virtual drive from daemon tools? Though that is not on right now so I don't know why that would be active.

    But the 2 drives thing, both labled DVD-ROM Drive D: is really bloody annoying.

    Is this a junk HP thing or a junk Windows Vista thing? =/
     
    Xythil, Jul 22, 2009
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  3. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Its a windows thing. You just need to edit the registry a little. Try using a registry cleaner.
     
    flipfire, Jul 22, 2009
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