Tooj 17 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 This is the message I'm getting, as one day they suddenly stopped recognising everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 Fixed thanks to this beauty. http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum...-working-2.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 on that screen shot above - do you see where the dvd drive is listed in the device manager? right click on it and select uninstall. then reboot straight away. your OS will then detect the drive again from the bios when it boots up and reinstall it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 on that screen shot above - do you see where the dvd drive is listed in the device manager? right click on it and select uninstall. then reboot straight away. your OS will then detect the drive again from the bios when it boots up and reinstall it. Looking at that thread I guess the problem would be that uninstalling (if you could) might not have removed the corrupted registry entries, which would have just sat there waiting for it to be reinstalled, making the problem relatively unfixable without editing the registry yourself (it's actually a similar thing to why you should always use a driver cleaner when updating display drivers and why win95/98 usually needed a clean install after a year or so of use). Unless they've massively improved Vista's handling of the registry on install/uninstall anyway. And people say Linux is a pita. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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