I just noticed this thread which relates to my problem posted in another
thread titled :Plextor MIA.
I lost my Plextor drive after installing iTunes.
So that was the culprit at least in my case.
Paula
"Cal Bear '66" <xxx@xxx.org> wrote in message
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> It seems to be happening since the release of Vista in January fairly
> frequently. It also happened during the Release Candidates. It seems to be
> mostly caused by Nero, Roxio and iTunes. And with other unknown causes
> too. I have been very lucky with Vista, and have had no problems at all
> with CD/DVD drives or USB devices. I don't think that any of the Windows
> Updates are related to this problem. And this solution does not always
> solve the problem, although it does seems to work about 99% of the time.
>
> Good luck, and I hope it works for you.
>
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> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "vanilla" <vanilla@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:%23d8FX%23Y2HHA.5992@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Cal Bear ... thanks for the link and for mentioning that it will work in
>> Vista also ... but I was wondering ... I started noticing a lot of posts
>> about people losing their CD/DVD drives after July 26th ... maybe these
>> posts have been steady all along since January ... At first I thought I
>> lost my CD/DVD drive because I had uninstalled Roxio ... but I checked my
>> notes and that was many weeks ago ...
>>
>> Has this been happening since January and I just didn't notice or did
>> something happen recently that affected a lot of people? It is very
>> possible this has been happening all along and because it didn't affect
>> me, I wasn't paying attention.
>>
>> I guess I'm just trying to make sense out of why I suddenly lost my
>> CD/DVD drive ... did we all click the wrong button or key combo? Look at
>> the moon wrong? (g) ... baffled ... vanilla
>>
>>
>> "Cal Bear '66" <xxx@xxx.org> wrote in message
>> news:e8m6G5T2HHA.5380@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Try this (same for Vista):
>>>
>>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/314060
>>>
>>> --
>>> I Bleed Blue and Gold
>>> GO BEARS!
>>>
>>>
>>> "Tim" <tim@overthere.com> wrote in message
>>> news:u93AhYT2HHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> Michael wrote:
>>>>> I tried to burn a disc in itunes and itunes said software or driver is
>>>>> missing. I'm getting an error code of 31?. I've tried system
>>>>> restore, uninstalling itunes all useless. If I put either a cd or dvd
>>>>> in the drive they are not recognised. The device is a HL-DT-ST
>>>>> DVD-+RW GSA-H21N. any help in locating a driver and removing the old
>>>>> would be greatly appreciated!!!!
>>>> Check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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