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Solve : CD/DVD drive not accessable on HP laptop?

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I am USING and HP Pavilion Laptop, using Vista and a few months ago the CD/DVD Rom is not accessable. I went to device manager and there is a ! on the CD drive. I am not sure of uninstalling the drive and reinstalling since I don't have the original install disk.
Any ideas on how to GET this back working?



You can uninstall the drive and re start >Vista will recognise >the driver can be downloaded from HP site










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the driver can be downloaded from HP site
Optical drives don't need any extra drivers.

One of these may help:
1. Uninstall the drive through Device Manager.
Restart computer. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.
or...
2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Restart computer.
or...
3. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on cdgone.zip to unzip it.
Right click on cdgone.reg, click Merge.
Accept registry merge.
Restart computer.
or...
4. GO to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary CHANNEL)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstall. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.Thanks the link to Microsoft did the trick I appreciate the help. Cool


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