I've been playing with my laptop and the disappearing CD drive is getting maddening. It appears that I can use the drive *once*, and the next time I go to use it, it vanishes as a device [not listed in a "My Computer" listing, nothing in device manager, and it is truly dead [e.g., at the moment I can't get a CD out of it because Windows doesn't think the drive is there at all, and so won't 'eject' it. I just had device manager do a 'scan for new devices' and it doesn't see the drive at all.
But: if I do a cold boot [Start->reboot] the drive comes back and works perfectly. *once*. It isn't going to be a connector problem or something like that -- I've been careful *NOT* to jostle the laptop as I cold-booted and the drive comes back. I can't imagine what would cause this sort of behavior [OR: what I might do to get the drive back other than cold-booting. Just frigid booting [that is, logging off the *account* and back in, without actually rebooting windows] doesn't help a bit. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
