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CD/CDRW drives not recognized

Sep 16, 2004 10:08AM PDT

I'm running Win98 SE on my kid's computer and they ran a game off of a floppy and now the optical drives are not recognized. BIOS still shows them but they don't show up under My Computer. Virus generated? Please help!

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Re: CD/CDRW drives not recognized
Sep 16, 2004 10:14AM PDT

Your post appears to be a duplicate. Try not to do that.

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Re: CD/CDRW drives not recognized
Sep 16, 2004 10:25AM PDT

Sorry. Learning the ropes here.

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Re: CD/CDRW drives not recognized
Sep 17, 2004 2:20AM PDT

I know that there's a registry key that can be re-written; this may fix it, however, I'm not sure what it is or where it is, sorry. I think it's under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive in W2K, but I'm not sure about WIN98. Hope this helps.

Note: If you're not sure about poking around in the Registry, please back it up first before you do anything. Under W2K, I think it's under the Registry menu, then choose Export Registry File, type in a file name, like "old_reg", click save, and it will put it by default in your My Documents folder.

Chauncey

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This is why duplicates don't work.
Sep 17, 2004 2:23AM PDT

The original owner of the thread has to look in multiple places in the same forum.

Its hard to tell which is the active thread.

Bob

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Re: This is why duplicates don't work.
Sep 17, 2004 2:44AM PDT

Maybe he thought the response time would get halved if he posted duplicate messages?

Chauncey