Vista - DVD drive not showing up after install

I have installed Vista Home Premium and the DVD drive I used to install the
OS is not showing up at all in device manager or anywhere else. I have also
installed XP on another partition on my RAID setup and the DVD drive is fine
there. Also, strangely, I installed Vista Ultimate on another hard drive
that is not part of the RAID setup, and Vista sees the DVD drive fine. This
is really weird, and it's driving me crazy, I have reinstalled multiple times
and can't get the DVD drive to appear. I swapped DVD drives, that didn't
work. Just now I swapped the IDE cable and am reinstalling yet again.

I've done some searches on this site and many people are directed to this
article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553/en-us, however the registry
values mentioned in the article are not in my registry, so there is nothing
to delete, so that fix is not helpful to me

Steven

Is there a NG for FSX? If not there should be Should be a couple I should
think. One for general FSX issues, one for developers (SimConnect)
programming, etc. I have finished an FSX multiplayer server I have
programmed in VS C++. A public freeware release soon, kind of waiting for
the developer community to set a network standard for FSX so we can all
share addons. That however probably will not happen. Since direct play has
been deprecated I suspect that there will be many implementations for
network multiplayer functionality for FSX. A standard would be nice. I am
using the server-client paradigm, forget peer to peer, to many issues with
disconnects for FS2004 and most people do not know how to set up their
firewall or router, causes so many problems.
G

Hi,

Try uninstalling/reinstalling the IDE controller driver for the cable that
is used to connect the drive.

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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Steven" <Steven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ECC152BD-1EF6-47CC-B61B-A2A4F8E2D9FC@microsoft.com...
>I have installed Vista Home Premium and the DVD drive I used to install the
> OS is not showing up at all in device manager or anywhere else. I have
> also
> installed XP on another partition on my RAID setup and the DVD drive is
> fine
> there. Also, strangely, I installed Vista Ultimate on another hard drive
> that is not part of the RAID setup, and Vista sees the DVD drive fine.
> This
> is really weird, and it's driving me crazy, I have reinstalled multiple
> times
> and can't get the DVD drive to appear. I swapped DVD drives, that didn't
> work. Just now I swapped the IDE cable and am reinstalling yet again.
>
> I've done some searches on this site and many people are directed to this
> article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553/en-us, however the
> registry
> values mentioned in the article are not in my registry, so there is
> nothing
> to delete, so that fix is not helpful to me
>
> Steven
>
>
>

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:34:11 -0700, Steven <Steven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have installed Vista Home Premium and the DVD drive I used to install the
>OS is not showing up at all in device manager or anywhere else. I have also
>installed XP on another partition on my RAID setup and the DVD drive is fine
>there. Also, strangely, I installed Vista Ultimate on another hard drive
>that is not part of the RAID setup, and Vista sees the DVD drive fine. This
>is really weird, and it's driving me crazy, I have reinstalled multiple times
>and can't get the DVD drive to appear. I swapped DVD drives, that didn't
>work. Just now I swapped the IDE cable and am reinstalling yet again.
>
Is it on a ribbon with anything else ? Master-Slave. only one of each on the same cable.
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I had the same problem with my Pioneer DVR108 16x drive and so far the only
fix I've sound is to go into device manager and scan for new devices. The
drive is found and put back in but as soon as I reboot it's gone again.


"Steven" <Steven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ECC152BD-1EF6-47CC-B61B-A2A4F8E2D9FC@microsoft.com...
>I have installed Vista Home Premium and the DVD drive I used to install the
> OS is not showing up at all in device manager or anywhere else. I have
> also
> installed XP on another partition on my RAID setup and the DVD drive is
> fine
> there. Also, strangely, I installed Vista Ultimate on another hard drive
> that is not part of the RAID setup, and Vista sees the DVD drive fine.
> This
> is really weird, and it's driving me crazy, I have reinstalled multiple
> times
> and can't get the DVD drive to appear. I swapped DVD drives, that didn't
> work. Just now I swapped the IDE cable and am reinstalling yet again.
>
> I've done some searches on this site and many people are directed to this
> article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553/en-us, however the
> registry
> values mentioned in the article are not in my registry, so there is
> nothing
> to delete, so that fix is not helpful to me
>
> Steven
>
>
>

I finally solved the problem. I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 motherboard and
I used a RAID setup with the onboard JMicron RAID controller. It turns out
that the RAID controller also controls the IDE socket, and the drivers on
Gigabyte's website weren't the latest, I had to go to JMicron's website,
downloaded the latest drivers RAID drivers there, and I was in business.
Maybe this will help anyone else with this problem.

Steven

"Dave B" wrote:

> I had the same problem with my Pioneer DVR108 16x drive and so far the only
> fix I've sound is to go into device manager and scan for new devices. The
> drive is found and put back in but as soon as I reboot it's gone again.
>
>
> "Steven" <Steven@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ECC152BD-1EF6-47CC-B61B-A2A4F8E2D9FC@microsoft.com...
> >I have installed Vista Home Premium and the DVD drive I used to install the
> > OS is not showing up at all in device manager or anywhere else. I have
> > also
> > installed XP on another partition on my RAID setup and the DVD drive is
> > fine
> > there. Also, strangely, I installed Vista Ultimate on another hard drive
> > that is not part of the RAID setup, and Vista sees the DVD drive fine.
> > This
> > is really weird, and it's driving me crazy, I have reinstalled multiple
> > times
> > and can't get the DVD drive to appear. I swapped DVD drives, that didn't
> > work. Just now I swapped the IDE cable and am reinstalling yet again.
> >
> > I've done some searches on this site and many people are directed to this
> > article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553/en-us, however the
> > registry
> > values mentioned in the article are not in my registry, so there is
> > nothing
> > to delete, so that fix is not helpful to me
> >
> > Steven
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>

Dave B wrote:
> I had the same problem with my Pioneer DVR108 16x drive and so far the only
> fix I've sound is to go into device manager and scan for new devices. The
> drive is found and put back in but as soon as I reboot it's gone again.

Would you look through the two log files C:\windows\inf\*.log for any
messages about your disappearing drive. Maybe compare the files before
and after doing the scan for hardware? Just grasping at straws here,
but disappearing devices seems to be a bug in need of useful data.