drives vanish in vista

hi.

i successfully install vista, install my programs but after a while my
cd/dvd drives all vanish. I have tried restore, deleting drives and letting
windows find them upon reboot.

Any ideas?

i would be greatful!

sounds like it may be the old upperfilters/lowerfilters problem....

http://support.microsoft.com/default...EN-US%3B320553




"nickthegreekuk" <nickthegreekuk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2269FC43-B668-4BE8-90DA-B36EFEE457AD@microsoft.com...
> hi.
>
> i successfully install vista, install my programs but after a while my
> cd/dvd drives all vanish. I have tried restore, deleting drives and
> letting
> windows find them upon reboot.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> i would be greatful!

nickthegreekuk,

Here is another Microsoft article that may, or may not, be of assistance:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929734/en-us

Look it over and determine whether anything in the article pertains to your
situation. Sometimes you can get a full fix, but sometimes you can get only
a partial fix and sometimes no fix. Good luck.
--
freddy


"nickthegreekuk" wrote:

> hi.
>
> i successfully install vista, install my programs but after a while my
> cd/dvd drives all vanish. I have tried restore, deleting drives and letting
> windows find them upon reboot.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> i would be greatful!