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    need some help, sony fz-190, drive disappeared

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by computergeek13, Oct 2, 2007.

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    Ive had the laptop for about a month now. When i did a fresh install of vista the blu ray drive was working fine. I was able to install all my programs.

    When i set it up for dual boot however (with a ubuntu os for school)

    it caused problems in windows and linux. The drive has completely disappeared.

    I can boot from a cd, but if i am in either OS, the cd is not available in windows explorer. I cant open it at all. If i put a cd in the drive, nothing happens.

    I reinstalled vista thinking that something became corrupt. And the drive worked until i reinstalled grub bootloader for linux to be able to booted again.

    Anyone have any advice?

    Or seen anything like this before?

    Im guessing the grub bootloader is using a generic driver maybe causing both windows and linux to not recognize it when it is booted?

    Is the matsu****a drive? (i think, cant remember as i cant access the drive in device manager, its missing) a SATA drive.

    Any drivers i could try updating without being able to "see" the drive?
     
    computergeek13, Oct 2, 2007
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    anyone ever even heard of this ?
     
    computergeek13, Oct 3, 2007
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