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peter449

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i left my house for a night over at my friends house, and i bought a new game, when i came back, i can't install it because i can't find the dvd rom or the cd RWin " my computer"... meaning they don't even display in "my computer". like i can see Disk c, d, andG, and floppy disk, but can't see the dvd rom or the cd rw i have... help.. i think my dad was fiddling around with the pc:mad:
 
peter449 said:
i left my house for a night over at my friends house, and i bought a new game, when i came back, i can't install it because i can't find the dvd rom or the cd RWin " my computer"... meaning they don't even display in "my computer". like i can see Disk c, d, andG, and floppy disk, but can't see the dvd rom or the cd rw i have... help.. i think my dad was fiddling around with the pc:mad:
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Tried restarting?
 
o, ya, and i opened the computer to see if the connection is good.
btw my dvd-r is hl-dt-st dvd-rom gdr8161b
and cd rw is cyber drv cw058d cd-r/rw
plz help
 
peter449 said:
o, ya, and i opened the computer to see if the connection is good.
btw my dvd-r is hl-dt-st dvd-rom gdr8161b
and cd rw is cyber drv cw058d cd-r/rw
plz help
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Those "HL" drives are total crap, no offense. This computer is a Dell, eh? In my Dad's Dell he had an HL drive and I reinstalled drivers twice after removing the drivers, I checked BIOS and it even didn't read it. I unplugged the connections and wiggled the wires, tried new cables, what else? I just unplugged it and I had a 2nd Samsung drive in it that runs like a dream, I just use that and not the HL.
 
ok, so my mom confesed, she was fiddling with the cdrw writing sh*t and the pc froze, when she turned it back on, they disappeared... and its not a dell its a pc my dad bought from china, it ran good before, but they just disappeared.... u only explained the dvd r what about the cd rw???
 
peter449 said:
ok, so my mom confesed, she was fiddling with the cdrw writing sh*t and the pc froze, when she turned it back on, they disappeared... and its not a dell its a pc my dad bought from china, it ran good before, but they just disappeared.... u only explained the dvd r what about the cd rw???
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Ooh...both of them are MIA, oh crap.....try hunting down the drivers and reinstall them, that would be all I know to do.
 
Go to the manufacturer's website.

INTELCRAZY is right, they are crap. For a few bucks get yourself a Lite-On.
 
lol, the manufacture for the cd rw has a crap website with no download section... and i don't know what manufacture dvd rom i got
 
well, i found teh driver for my dvd drive. so i put all the files in a floppy disk, i read some where that dos can only read files with 8 or less letters, so how do i change the file to make it read some other file i named, because there r too many letters.
i know u r confused, so here, this is the link i read from, i have the same problem when installing
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=107617
 
peter449 said:
ok, so my mom confesed, she was fiddling with the cdrw writing sh*t and the pc froze, when she turned it back on, they disappeared... and its not a dell its a pc my dad bought from china, it ran good before, but they just disappeared.... u only explained the dvd r what about the cd rw???
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Updating the firmware on the drive itself and windows losing the drive has nothing to do with each other, go to Control panel-Systems-Hardware Tap-Device manager-Click the drop down list beside your IDE controller-find the IDE controller that the drive or drives are on and right click it and click uninstall, then reboot. See if Windows can see the drive now.
 
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