Vista - Losing my DVD RW Drive

I noticed lately in Vista my Dual-Layer DVD +/- RW (IDE) drive is
disappearing.

A reboot is usually enough to get it back (a soft reboot, it's not a
power-off thing), but it's annoying as all heck, especially now that I'm
using Vista regularly -- I j ust installed Visual Studio 2005, Office 2007,
and now I'm installing the MSDN Library and for 2 out of 3 of those installs
I had to reboot to get the DVD drive visible.

-Rob

Yep, I get that with both my CD and DVD drive...pop the drive open (unless
it dies all the way of course) and next time you open Exporer, it will be
there. At least, that is what I have done and noticed. Strange to be sure.

Chris

"Rob W" <RobWilkens@optonline.net> wrote in message
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>I noticed lately in Vista my Dual-Layer DVD +/- RW (IDE) drive is
>disappearing.
>
> A reboot is usually enough to get it back (a soft reboot, it's not a
> power-off thing), but it's annoying as all heck, especially now that I'm
> using Vista regularly -- I j ust installed Visual Studio 2005, Office
> 2007, and now I'm installing the MSDN Library and for 2 out of 3 of those
> installs I had to reboot to get the DVD drive visible.
>
> -Rob

Chris wrote:
> Yep, I get that with both my CD and DVD drive...pop the drive open
> (unless it dies all the way of course) and next time you open Exporer,
> it will be there. At least, that is what I have done and noticed.
> Strange to be sure.
>
> Chris
>
> "Rob W" <RobWilkens@optonline.net> wrote in message
> news:C0A57261-EC3F-4649-B1D5-0B2B475790A0@microsoft.com...
>
>> I noticed lately in Vista my Dual-Layer DVD +/- RW (IDE) drive is
>> disappearing.
>>
>> A reboot is usually enough to get it back (a soft reboot, it's not a
>> power-off thing), but it's annoying as all heck, especially now that
>> I'm using Vista regularly -- I j ust installed Visual Studio 2005,
>> Office 2007, and now I'm installing the MSDN Library and for 2 out of
>> 3 of those installs I had to reboot to get the DVD drive visible.
>>
>> -Rob
>
>
On one of my RC2 x86 installs, iTunes destroys all cd/dvd's on the
machine. They have yellow marks in device manager. Deleting iTunes is
the only answer.
Go figure.
Frank

Daemon Tools does the same to mine.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry
"Frank" <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote in message
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> Chris wrote:
>> Yep, I get that with both my CD and DVD drive...pop the drive open
>> (unless it dies all the way of course) and next time you open Exporer, it
>> will be there. At least, that is what I have done and noticed. Strange
>> to be sure.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> "Rob W" <RobWilkens@optonline.net> wrote in message
>> news:C0A57261-EC3F-4649-B1D5-0B2B475790A0@microsoft.com...
>>
>>> I noticed lately in Vista my Dual-Layer DVD +/- RW (IDE) drive is
>>> disappearing.
>>>
>>> A reboot is usually enough to get it back (a soft reboot, it's not a
>>> power-off thing), but it's annoying as all heck, especially now that I'm
>>> using Vista regularly -- I j ust installed Visual Studio 2005, Office
>>> 2007, and now I'm installing the MSDN Library and for 2 out of 3 of
>>> those installs I had to reboot to get the DVD drive visible.
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>
>>
> On one of my RC2 x86 installs, iTunes destroys all cd/dvd's on the
> machine. They have yellow marks in device manager. Deleting iTunes is the
> only answer.
> Go figure.
> Frank

I happened to me and I went to the device manager and installed the driver
again and now everything is there.

"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Daemon Tools does the same to mine.
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry
> "Frank" <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote in message
> news:OTB2q4DCHHA.5064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Chris wrote:
>>> Yep, I get that with both my CD and DVD drive...pop the drive open
>>> (unless it dies all the way of course) and next time you open Exporer,
>>> it will be there. At least, that is what I have done and noticed.
>>> Strange to be sure.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> "Rob W" <RobWilkens@optonline.net> wrote in message
>>> news:C0A57261-EC3F-4649-B1D5-0B2B475790A0@microsoft.com...
>>>
>>>> I noticed lately in Vista my Dual-Layer DVD +/- RW (IDE) drive is
>>>> disappearing.
>>>>
>>>> A reboot is usually enough to get it back (a soft reboot, it's not a
>>>> power-off thing), but it's annoying as all heck, especially now that
>>>> I'm using Vista regularly -- I j ust installed Visual Studio 2005,
>>>> Office 2007, and now I'm installing the MSDN Library and for 2 out of 3
>>>> of those installs I had to reboot to get the DVD drive visible.
>>>>
>>>> -Rob
>>>
>>>
>> On one of my RC2 x86 installs, iTunes destroys all cd/dvd's on the
>> machine. They have yellow marks in device manager. Deleting iTunes is the
>> only answer.
>> Go figure.
>> Frank
>
>

Gosh, I hope microsoft fixed this between build 5744 and RTM.. I don't seem
to remember this in earlier Vista betas, but I didn't honestly start using
the DVD drive much prior to 5744 when I was more confident that the system
would be stable.

-Rob

"Thomas M. McDonald" <tmcdonald@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:CD99872A-98A7-4E5C-9A14-3B2BC379E074@microsoft.com...
>I happened to me and I went to the device manager and installed the driver
>again and now everything is there.
>
> "Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23zYUvQFCHHA.3448@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Daemon Tools does the same to mine.
>> --
>> Andre
>> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
>> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
>> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E8E5CC039D51E3DB!9709.entry
>> "Frank" <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote in message
>> news:OTB2q4DCHHA.5064@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Chris wrote:
>>>> Yep, I get that with both my CD and DVD drive...pop the drive open
>>>> (unless it dies all the way of course) and next time you open Exporer,
>>>> it will be there. At least, that is what I have done and noticed.
>>>> Strange to be sure.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> "Rob W" <RobWilkens@optonline.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:C0A57261-EC3F-4649-B1D5-0B2B475790A0@microsoft.com...
>>>>
>>>>> I noticed lately in Vista my Dual-Layer DVD +/- RW (IDE) drive is
>>>>> disappearing.
>>>>>
>>>>> A reboot is usually enough to get it back (a soft reboot, it's not a
>>>>> power-off thing), but it's annoying as all heck, especially now that
>>>>> I'm using Vista regularly -- I j ust installed Visual Studio 2005,
>>>>> Office 2007, and now I'm installing the MSDN Library and for 2 out of
>>>>> 3 of those installs I had to reboot to get the DVD drive visible.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Rob
>>>>
>>>>
>>> On one of my RC2 x86 installs, iTunes destroys all cd/dvd's on the
>>> machine. They have yellow marks in device manager. Deleting iTunes is
>>> the only answer.
>>> Go figure.
>>> Frank
>>
>>
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