Gold_Tiger10 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 I have a very nice, brand new (3 weeks old lol) Toshiba/Windows Vista Laptop. Anyways, I tried to watch the Pursuit of Happiness. It never loaded. I check my Meda Center, it told me to put a DVD in the Drive.. I checked my Computer Folder, my DVD/CD drive is gone!! I tried seeing if it was just this DVD, I tried 4 over DVD's and a CD. Nothing. Is it broken?A virus perhaps? (Damn those website!! She was just so hawt...uh...) Please halp me, I'm a moron. here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Putter Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It's worked before right? Perhaps try taking a look in side to see if the cables are set up nice, unplug/replug them and so forth. Never hurts as a first attempt (in fact, it happened to me where my dvd drive wasn't viewed because the IDE cable wasn't perfectly flush). Give er a try, atleast. You never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomar04 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 well i dont think its a virus, because you are running vista, and its a little too early for those. if mr putter's suggestion didnt work, try reinstalling the drivers, or find a new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errdoth Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 It's worked before right? Perhaps try taking a look in side to see if the cables are set up nice, unplug/replug them and so forth. Never hurts as a first attempt (in fact, it happened to me where my dvd drive wasn't viewed because the IDE cable wasn't perfectly flush). Give er a try, atleast. You never know. It's a laptop. He didn't put it together, so it might void a warrenty to open it up. Contact the company you bought it from. They will help (after maybe five hours on the phone, but hey) nd might even replace it if it is only three weeks old. Last.fm Signature Overlays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faux Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Lol, you or someone were screwing around with the services you have on your comp. That happened to me before because... I was screwing around with my laptop's services crap. I got my drive back after a reformat :lol: :: Guess the Movie Contest Champion: pfilc23 :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
das1330 Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 my guess would be the cables connecting the drive to the motherboard are loose. I have personally never had a problem like this but that would be my best guess, as as far as I know unless there is some very clever virus writer drives just dont go missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darrel104 Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Check and make sure it is working properly at: control panel > system > hardware > Device manager Check to see if it is identified in the BIOS I would think this problem is caused by the registry or motherboard/chipset drivers witch would could try reinstalling the drivers and/or restoring the registry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blipo Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 You sure it's a DVD drive? =D Just gotta check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold_Tiger10 Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 I didn't understand anything...why did some of you mention my mother so many times? :| Check and make sure it is working properly at: control panel > system > hardware > Device manager Check to see if it is identified in teh BIOS I would think this problem is caused by teh registry or motherboard/chipset drivers witch would could try reinstalling teh drivers and/or restoring teh registry. Umm...There's a big yellow sign under the DVD Drive. It has an exclamation mark in it. :? I checked..and got this.. Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available. here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciucur Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 go control pannel - system - hardware - device manager - DVD/CD ROM drives, if nothin is there, its not connected correctly, if its there with a yellow triangle, reinstall the DVD/CD drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold_Tiger10 Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 How do I reinstall the DVD/CD drivers? :? here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olgath Posted April 11, 2007 Share Posted April 11, 2007 If you the company you bought the laptop from is worth anything, they should have at the very least given you a recovery disc with all the proprietary device drivers on it. However, companies have been providing "recovery partitions" in lieu of disc because it is cheaper. You should be able to load the drivers from the device manager. You may be able to find them on the interweb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooberman Posted April 19, 2007 Share Posted April 19, 2007 How do I reinstall the DVD/CD drivers? :? go to device manager right click on your dvd drive and choose update drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold_Tiger10 Posted April 19, 2007 Author Share Posted April 19, 2007 Windows has determined that your Driver is up to date. Yeah, time to take it back to BestBuy. -.- here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapsed Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Windows has determined that your Driver is up to date. Yeah, time to take it back to BestBuy. -.- Lol, I never trust BestBuy. I'd get the parts and assemble my machines myself (Yes I'm a nerd :anxious: ) It's fun =] Lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 Windows has determined that your Driver is up to date. Yeah, time to take it back to BestBuy. -.- Lol, I never trust BestBuy. I'd get the parts and assemble my machines myself (Yes I'm a nerd :anxious: ) It's fun =] Lol. He probably bought the laptop at bestbuy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold_Tiger10 Posted April 20, 2007 Author Share Posted April 20, 2007 He probably bought the laptop at bestbuy. Wow! You must be a detective! Amazing! How did you know!?! :shock: Yeah, time to take it back to BestBuy. here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade995 Posted April 20, 2007 Share Posted April 20, 2007 My comment was at moonlasped because he would never trust Bestbuy. I was only stating the obvious :P . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold_Tiger10 Posted April 20, 2007 Author Share Posted April 20, 2007 Ok, this can be closed now. I got little help here.. :evil: here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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