Please shoot me now "D:\ application not found"

Forgive me if this is the wrong area to post this, I am very desperate for help. I've spent the entire day on the phone or on forums trying to find a solution.

I just built a computer yesterday, windows vista home premium 64bit. I installed windows and the drivers that came with the computer components. At some point during the installing, patching, hotfixing, etc., my dvd drive stopped letting me access the discs.

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I can open/close the drive, windows detects the drive. I've tried unistalling it through device manger and rebooting, no luck. I've tried a couple different things in the registry, no luck. I'm assuming some piece of software I installed changed settings/properties, but I could be completely wrong.

When I double click on the drive in "my computer" I get the message, "d:\ application not found".

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I have tried everything I can think of today, and I am very close to going insane.

Bear

Have you tried changing the drive letter? I've seen all versions of windows show similar behavior when they have a pair of removable drives mysteriously on the same drive letter - for instance, a USB drive and a dvd-rom.

It won't really hurt anything to rename the drive. Give that a whirl.


Also, I assume you've tried different data cables and the like.

-ltwally

Recheck to make sure the cdrom/dvdrom cable is securely plugged into the motherboard.