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re: Recognize cd drive Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4:26 pm Posted by Ricer46 (23818 messages posted) Start by making sure the drive is still good. Try to boot with a bootable CDROM, such as the XP installation disk. If you can't boot then the drive is bad. If you can then you have joined a huge list of frustrated XP users that have shared this problem. You can do a Google search for the problem and you'll get lot's of hits about a hi/lo filters key in the registry. I've never known anyone that found that fix to actually work. Does the CD drive show up in the device manager? Probably not. Does it show up in during the initial POST? Probably yes. On Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 8:00 am, Warren wrote: >Recently had to replace my xp and now it doesn't recognize a cd in a drive when I >try to burn something. What should I look for to correct this problem, a program, >or something to check on the computer? Thanks, Warren [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Recognize cd drive Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 11:11 pm Posted by GaryCantley (183 messages posted) Go to Device Manager and see if your CD drive has a yellow exclamation mark on it. If so, then follow this link http://www.techbug.com/en/?p=4 . Unlike Ricer, this has worked everytime for me. On Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 4:26 pm, Ricer46 wrote: If you can then you have joined a huge list of frustrated XP users that have shared this problem. You can do a Google search for the problem and you'll get lot's of hits about a hi/lo filters key in the registry. I've never known anyone that found that fix to actually work. Does the CD drive show up in the device manager? Probably not. Does it show up in during the initial POST? Probably yes. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Recognize cd drive Friday, March 12, 2010 at 5:28 am Posted by Ricer46 (23818 messages posted) Actually, I've never had the problem, but I've seen the problem posted surely at least a hundred times here, and you are the first person that has ever stated here that it actually worked. The same fix is also claimed to fix floppy drives that have the same problem (almost as common as the CDROM problem), that one I have had, and it did not fix it. However in most of these cases (for either drive type) I don't think there is a yellow exclamation mark next to the device, the device manager indicates all is well, but all is not well. Normally when there is the mark, you can just delete the device and restart XP, and all is automatically fixed. On Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 11:11 pm, GaryCantley wrote: >Go to Device Manager and see if your CD drive has a yellow exclamation mark on it. > >If so, then follow this link http://www.techbug.com/en/?p=4 . > >Unlike Ricer, this has worked everytime for me. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum