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    Lost my CD-Rom

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by justbrake, Sep 4, 2009.

  1. justbrake

    justbrake Notebook Evangelist

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    I reformatted last night complete clean install and booted to the cd and after all installs and updates it can't find my CD-rom it's there in device but has a problem it's a problem device in hardware I tried working with the vista to fix the problem but it didn't work I tried the bios to defaults save and exit no good I'm pretty sure I loaded the drivers for it when loading all drivers manually anyway it has a problem , I was thinking about removing it from device manger and hoping it'll find it again but not sure

    any Ideas what I can try ?

    Thanks In Advance
     
    justbrake, Sep 4, 2009
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  2. Ayle

    Ayle Trailblazer

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    Uninstall it in the device manager and reboot.
     
    Ayle, Sep 5, 2009
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  3. justbrake

    justbrake Notebook Evangelist

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    as i mentioned in another thread , I googled the problem and found some others had the same problem, someone gave a link to MS and there was a fix-it button, it worked perfect, I tried what you said a dozen times before that and couldn't get that idea to work seams like vista has a problem with this device
     
    justbrake, Sep 5, 2009
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