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by: VIDEOpro September 16, 2004 5:08 PM PDT

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CD/CDRW drives not recognized

by VIDEOpro - 9/16/04 5:08 PM

I'm running Win98 SE on my kid's computer and they ran a game off of a floppy and now the optical drives are not recognized. BIOS still shows them but they don't show up under My Computer. Virus generated? Please help!


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Re: CD/CDRW drives not recognized

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 9/16/04 5:14 PM

In Reply to: CD/CDRW drives not recognized by VIDEOpro

Your post appears to be a duplicate. Try not to do that.


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Re: CD/CDRW drives not recognized

by VIDEOpro - 9/16/04 5:25 PM

In Reply to: Re: CD/CDRW drives not recognized by R. Proffitt Moderator

Sorry. Learning the ropes here.


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Re: CD/CDRW drives not recognized

by cgsmithjr - 9/17/04 9:20 AM

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I know that there's a registry key that can be re-written; this may fix it, however, I'm not sure what it is or where it is, sorry. I think it's under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive in W2K, but I'm not sure about WIN98. Hope this helps.

Note: If you're not sure about poking around in the Registry, please back it up first before you do anything. Under W2K, I think it's under the Registry menu, then choose Export Registry File, type in a file name, like "old_reg", click save, and it will put it by default in your My Documents folder.

Chauncey


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This is why duplicates don't work.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 9/17/04 9:23 AM

In Reply to: Re: CD/CDRW drives not recognized by cgsmithjr

The original owner of the thread has to look in multiple places in the same forum.

Its hard to tell which is the active thread.

Bob


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Re: This is why duplicates don't work.

by cgsmithjr - 9/17/04 9:44 AM

In Reply to: This is why duplicates don't work. by R. Proffitt Moderator

Maybe he thought the response time would get halved if he posted duplicate messages?

Chauncey


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