Laptop DVD Rom mystery?

[SMEE]

Ok folks, heres the deal. My fooking DVD rom keeps dissapearing from my laptop. I have done two factory restores in recent weeks....both times, it restored the Rom Drive. But for some reason, it lasts a few days before it is being removed from both My Computer and Device manager. it is really doing my nut in. The only things i have dowloaded are, utorrent, VLC player, AVG and any updates from windows. It has to be something in there that is causing the problem.

Anyone got any idea....coz i will have to do a factory restore (which takes 2 hrs) if i want to get it back, coz i dont know any other way. Also....there is no point doing it, as it will soon dissappear again, judging by previous experience

[SMEE]

I been investigating for a few hours now, and while it seems a common problem, I have yet to find a fix. tried the specific so called Microsoft Fix It soloution....NO LUCK (waste of time) and the latest thing i have tried is this.............

"Reports have filtered in that CD or DVD drives will suddenly cease to exist in XP systems. Most often this has been reported in conjunction with program installations and Windows upgrades, but it has also happened for no apparent reason. This tweak will restore the missing drives after a reboot.

[start] [Run] [Regedit]

Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class

Key Name: {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Value Data: [Delete All Value Data from UpperFilters and LowerFilters]

Note: Do not delete the Key or the Multi-String Values. Delete only the data values.

Exit Registry and Reboot"

No luck, coz the upper and lower flters dont exist!

Edited October 4, 2009 by SMEE

[Jay_7]

Are you absolutely certain that the drive itself isn't fooked?

Is the drive appearing in the BIOS?

[SMEE]

Im pretty sure the drive isnt goosed...as its been used no more than 20 times. And no Jay....i checked the Bios and the drive isnt listed

[Jay_7]

Im pretty sure the drive isnt goosed...as its been used no more than 20 times. And no Jay....i checked the Bios and the drive isnt listed

If it's not in the BIOS then your drive's goosed. I guess you could try removing it and re-seating it, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

If it's just a ROM drive, you'll pick one up for between ?20 and ?30.