Vista - Blocked Removable Drives

Hi All,
Dont know how its happened but I cannot access any removable drives, DVD
Drive or USB cards.
The DVD drive has a round circle through it and USB cards will not open.
I've tried to finfd group policys but it reports non are available as I
thought this may be the answer.
I'm lost for any other iteas on how to put right or what cased them to be
blocked so and help would be great.
Len

try to handle one issue at a time.
IF you try to uninstall and reinstall the dvd in device manager, what happens?
Have you looked in your policies? There is a group policy object in Vista
under computer configuration/administrative templates/system/removeable
storage access.
If you put in an auto-play capable dvd in the drive, what happens?

"Len" wrote:

> Hi All,
> Dont know how its happened but I cannot access any removable drives, DVD
> Drive or USB cards.
> The DVD drive has a round circle through it and USB cards will not open.
> I've tried to finfd group policys but it reports non are available as I
> thought this may be the answer.
> I'm lost for any other iteas on how to put right or what cased them to be
> blocked so and help would be great.
> Len
>
>