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March 8th, 2004 15:00

CPU doesn't recognize my cd drives

Hi, I really don't know what happened to my cpu. My younger brother did something to it and now it doesn't recognize either of the 2 cd drives i got on it. Under "My computer" there's supposed to be a "d" and "e" letter symbol, but i gets nothing. And i can't play anything on them, can someone please help, I would really appreciate it, thanks,

traggik

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March 8th, 2004 16:00




Hi Traggik,
We have seen this issue in the past be related to the Upper & Lower Filter if per chance your OS is Windows XP. Click on the CD/RW gif in my post and scroll to Section 100, article 31.

These articles may helps as well, same CD/RW site, Section 20, article 3; Section 11, articles 2 & 1.

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March 8th, 2004 17:00

Taggik

In addition to Predator's advice also check to see if your brother didn't install Windows TweakUi.  If he did then you will have to enable the drives under the My Computer Tab of TweakUi in order to view them in Windows.  I'm just guessing that little brother may have wanted to take advantage of the Paranoia features of TweakUi so you wouldn't check up on his surfing habits. I could be wrong though, but thought I would mention it.

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March 8th, 2004 18:00

I am running win 2000, and he doesn't have TweakUI installed. Go ahead and still try the procedures you guys mentioned, and thanks for replying.

traggik

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November 9th, 2004 21:00

In response to your post about deleting Upper and Lower filters in the registry for windows XP, i did this after i called Dell and it seems to have fixed my problems, then just a few hours ago my E: drive is gone i look in the registry and the files are still deleted, before i deleted them i could not use D: or E: but now i just cant use E: what should i do? if you need specs or anymore information about the problem please feel free to ask...Thank you
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