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Help!, I deleted my CDRW/DVD drive?

post #1 of 10
8/30/05 at 3:32am
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Hello, I was trying to do a bit of clean up and create some room on my hard drive, and I was deleting some files, I think they were in my: C:\documents and settings\owner\local settings\temp file, apparently not a good idea. then I emptied my recycle bin, a worse idea. then I noticed my Cd drive wasn't accessible, I doesn't even recognize it as being installed, and I cant do a reinstall, without a CD drive, when I reboot, it doesn't see it as a new piece of hardware. any suggestions,

is there a place to download the files I need?

any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
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post #2 of 10
8/30/05 at 3:53am
What I would suggest doing is going to Control Panel<System, then the hardware tab, and click on the "Device Manager" button. Go to DVD/CD-ROM drives and try removing your CD drive (right click, uninstall) and then restarting. It should re-detect it and reinstall anything that you might've deleted. It'd be extremely weird if it were in your tmp folder...
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post #3 of 10
9/2/05 at 12:19am
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thanks, I am giving that a try, I thought I tried this already but , couldn't find the drive in the device manager, but I will check again.
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post #4 of 10
9/2/05 at 12:30am
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well I just checked and as feared, its not even listed, under disk drives it has a "newtrends" MMC usb device, my 2 hard drives and a winbond memory stick device and thats it,
thought I would try and install it as new hardware, but don't see a choice for a CDrom drive and can't use my system disk (without a CDrom drive). I was hoping there was a place to download and install the missing files.
Any more help still greatly appreciated!!

Dennis
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post #5 of 10
9/2/05 at 1:35am
hey i tried watt u descibed, and it did not do anything to my system. they are temp files, and do nothing after they have been used. maybe u just have a bad drive. i never heard of any instance of this evere happening.
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post #6 of 10
9/2/05 at 8:54pm
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good point I guess thats possible the drive is bad, but wouldn't it still come up in my device manager or elsewhere. I have a shortcut to it on my desk top, which now has a small red x on the icon. I can open the drive tray like always, throw in a CD, tray slides shut, CD spins up for about 5 seconds and stops.

I just assumed it was something I deleted, since that's what I was doing right before, and it was working fine before that.

I agree they were temp files so I felt I was safe, but in the midst of the delete, a warning came up saying "are you sure you want to delete D:\.exe, I said no, and cancelled the delete at that point (my CD drive was my E: drive)
but I wonder why the "D:\.exe" file is in my "C:\documents and settings\owner\local settings\temp file", and was there a file called "E:\.exe" in the this file that was deleted?
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post #7 of 10
9/3/05 at 3:38pm
Try going into device manager and see if the device is listed there under the caption DVD/CD-ROM Drives. If it's there, uninstallit and the reboot. The drivers and all other necessary files will be reinstalled and refreshed. If it does not appear in Device Manager, I would physically remove the drive and then reseat it to see if that makes a difference. In BIOS also check to insure that the secondary control is/has been enabled.
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post #8 of 10
9/17/05 at 9:04am
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Thanks G-Omaha,

I will give that a shot, I went and bought a 200gb external drive and threw the system disk on it (with a my desktop computer) and was able to do a repair install on the Sager off the external drive, and its still not mentioned in the device manager anywhere, I was thinking of trying the "pull it out and put it back in" idea.

If it turns out to be a bad drive, is it possible to replace it myself without having to send it to Sager?

Thanks again,
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post #9 of 10
9/17/05 at 10:41am
Yes.
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post #10 of 10
10/11/05 at 10:56am
Any updates? One of my drives is doing the same thing (works but isnt recognized by OS)

I plan to do that pull it out and stick it back in idea but ive been lazy lately.
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