DVD Drive E: Drive disappearing from Vista Home Premium 64

I have two SATA Liteon DVD drives, E: DVDRW LH-20A1L and F: DVD
SHD-16S1S. Starting yesterday,Drive E: disappeared from My Computer and
is not displayed in Device Manager, BIOS shows it's there. Yesterday
Vista started taking longer to load too, the green loading bar freezes
for about a minute. I tried running Start Up Repair from Vista Disc,
repair didn't fing anything so I used Restore Point. Still the same
problem. PC is about two years old, I built it, with Vista and MOBO
drivers/downloads up to date. I'm not getting any error codes as similar
posts state. Drive F: has no problems loading. Drive E: has latest
Firmware too from Liteon. Until yesterday Drive E: had always loaded. At
a loss as to why Vista can't see it when Bios does. Both drives have
power as the led lights blink at start up and i can open E: by pressing
button. Any direction in solving this issue would be appreciated...thx!



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dma5949

Hi,

Have you tried the steps here?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"dma5949" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
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> I have two SATA Liteon DVD drives, E: DVDRW LH-20A1L and F: DVD
> SHD-16S1S. Starting yesterday,Drive E: disappeared from My Computer and
> is not displayed in Device Manager, BIOS shows it's there. Yesterday
> Vista started taking longer to load too, the green loading bar freezes
> for about a minute. I tried running Start Up Repair from Vista Disc,
> repair didn't fing anything so I used Restore Point. Still the same
> problem. PC is about two years old, I built it, with Vista and MOBO
> drivers/downloads up to date. I'm not getting any error codes as similar
> posts state. Drive F: has no problems loading. Drive E: has latest
> Firmware too from Liteon. Until yesterday Drive E: had always loaded. At
> a loss as to why Vista can't see it when Bios does. Both drives have
> power as the led lights blink at start up and i can open E: by pressing
> button. Any direction in solving this issue would be appreciated...thx!
>
>
>
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> dma5949