Vista stopped noticing my disc drives.

[Serp]

Within the last few days my Vista system stopped noticing that I have 2 dvd drives.

It was working fine just a few days ago, but now I get error icons in my device manager and it says my drivers aren't working, so I uninstall and let windows look for updates, but it fails to install new drivers.

The device manager says they're

atapi dvd a dh20a4p ATA device
atapi dvd a dh16D2P ATA device

I tried manually looking for drivers on Google, but I found nothing, but I did see that someone else had the same problem a year ago, but nobody helped him and he never explained how/if he fixed it.

 

[StrangleHold]

Instead of just using the driver update. Try right clicking on them in Device manager and click uninstall. Reboot and let windows reinstall the drivers.

 

[Serp]

Instead of just using the driver update. Try right clicking on them in Device manager and click uninstall. Reboot and let windows reinstall the drivers.

I forgot to mention, but yes, I've uninstalled them completely, ran CCleaner, then restarted. Still failed.

 

[scurtis]

Have you used some sort of Vista Speed up software recently? Its what mucked up my PC, all i had to do, was go into the software and undo the Speed up - Wasnt much Difference anyway!

 

[bigrich0086]

also check in bios to see if their in there. You can also make bios default again. Go back in uninstall the roms, reboot and see if that helps.

 

[Aastii]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

click fix this problem, download microsofts fix, run it, restart, it should be there now.

It happened to my neighbour a few months back which i found a fix for, it's some problem that can happen in the registry when you install or change a program.