CD ROM Not Found Following Syatem Restore

[Dave]

I recently did a system restore on my computer, and now
my CD-ROM drive is not listed anywhere. It doesn't show
up on the device manager or on "My Computer". I have
tried the "Add Hardware Wizard", but XP still won't find
the drive. Prior to the restore, the CD-Rom was working
properly.
What's causing Windows to ignore my CD-Rom drive, and
can it be corrected?
Thank you ....

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

See link below
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314060
1.A Goto http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.php#problems
2.B See the second "problem" (read the caveats)
3.C Run the provided registry patch
That should fix your problem (basically, a filter driver is missing or
non-operational, the registry patch will delete the filter drivers
references for your cdrom(s))

Alvin


Dave wrote:

> I recently did a system restore on my computer, and now
> my CD-ROM drive is not listed anywhere. It doesn't show
> up on the device manager or on "My Computer". I have
> tried the "Add Hardware Wizard", but XP still won't find
> the drive. Prior to the restore, the CD-Rom was working
> properly.
> What's causing Windows to ignore my CD-Rom drive, and
> can it be corrected?
> Thank you ....