why isnt my laptop detecting my D: cd rom drive????

teenage_Drama

i am trying to play a dvd/cd rom...and ive tried all of them...they used to work before i restored my laptop

i have a dell inspiron 2200

and when i put the cd into the drive it makes a few sounds, and doesnt show up when i click on my computer..all there is in hard disk drives is my local drive C


Dell is currently closed so can any1 help me recover this problem overnight?

thanks

Mr_Squiddy

Go to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management.

This lists all the drives currently visible to XP. Your DVD drive should be visible, but may not have a drive letter associated. Right-click on the drive and select 'Change Drive Letter and Paths' and give it a letter (D: is the obvious one.)

If the DVD drive is not in the list of drives then go to System Properties (right-click My Computer and select Properties) -> Hardware -> Device Manager. Your drive should be visible beneath DVD/CDRom drives.

If it is not visible there then have a look in the BIOS (F2 shortly after the boot sequence starts.) If it ain't there then you have a problem!

Mr_Squiddy

for the disk management you can also type diskmgmt.msc at the command line. For the device manager type devmgmt.msc.

teenage_Drama

drive d isnt showing in disk management or computer management

do you think i need a new drive?

point3

Is the optical drive properly slotted in?
Take it out and push it in again

teenage_Drama

yh it is....

Chippy_Minton

In Device Manager, right-click DVD/CD-ROM drives and click Scan for hardware changes. Then see if it has shown up.

albertross_2

have you disabled it in the bios?

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=193167

T4i

You obviously still got power going to the unit as the drawer opens/shuts.

I'd be tempted to go in the p.c (slide off side panel) and pull the IDE connector out of the drive and re-seat it.



If you do this make sure the red line down the flat IDE cable is closest to the power cable. Push it in slowly, square-on.

fishing-girl

i have got exactly the same problem on my pc but with 2 disc drives cd- rom and dvd rw.have tried all the above sugggestions and they still wont work!! any other suggestions?

albertross_2

FG,

have you just put an extra drive in, or were they always there, and just stopped working?

If you have just added a drive, you need to make sure that the jumper on the drive is set correctly, to either cable select, or slave, or master, and you have to enable the drive detection in the bios.

Cable select should automatically detect whether it is slave or master (if your pc supports CS), master is the drive on the end of a cable, slave is the drive on the middle connector.