I went on to my computer and had a pop-up message saying something like - Cannot find and installed CD-Rom Drive. I went into My Computer and it wasn't there all right. I went into Control Panel - System - Hardware - Device Manager and under DVD/CD-Rom Drives there was a yellow ! next to NEC NR-7900A. How did my drive dissapear and is there any way to fix it? It was working fine earlier in the day. I burned some photos to a disc.
Go to this webpage and you will be able to solve the problem. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060#letmefixit Basicallly, you'll be resetting the registry to recognize your CD ROM again. Be SURE TO FOLLOW STEP BY STEP. Print the instructions first so that you don't lose your place.
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I could have told you you were loading Windows 7 by the symptoms. Try running a Malware program with a register edit-register function in it. If you are switching from XP Pro. you will need to clear your register and all command and drive to . Set BIOS to boot from DVD/CD first then set the hard drive to boot second. Windows. Also if you have access to another computer ask microsoft for tech support.
Your computer is configured to recognize specific devices in your computer. If you removed the CDROM drive, you need to tell your computer that it's gone, and that you're aware of it. That message is kind of like a "Hey, there's something missing from your computer... did you know about this?"
You should boot your computer up and get into the BIOS. When your computer turns on, you'll see a message in the corner that says something like "Press F2 for BIOS" or something like that. Get into the BIOS menu using this option. When you get into the BIOS, you'll need to find the sub-menu called "IDE Devices" or something referring to IDE drives. You should see two IDE channels, with two possible devices per channel. You should see the entry where your CDROM drive used to be - change this option to "Disabled" and then save your settings and reboot the computer. The message should go away. Good luck!
If you are attempting to install Windows XP and are receiving this error message as the computer is booting verify that your computer BIOS has the proper boot settings. For example, if you are attempting to run the install from the CD-ROM make sure the CD-ROM is the first boot device, and not the hard disk drive.
When the computer is booting you should receive the below prompt.
Press any key to boot from the CD Important: When you see this message press any key such as the Enter key immediately, otherwise it will try booting from the hard drive and likely get the NTLDR error again.
got to have a new cd-rom drive mate, most practical approach.
other options are network boot (done in offices with many computers), USB boot (if your BIOS supports it & you need to have a USB device with the bootable image of the system disk), etc.
Is you new hard drive lager than you old on and was the disk drive a factory replacement cause with those disks if you even change just that they will not work
Your going to take your disk (if muiltiple disks, then take the first disk or any disk that says something like "install" on it or something) and simply insert it into your CD-ROM drive. A screen is going to pop up. It should be a GTA San Andreas screen. There should be a button that says "install". Click that and simply go through the process. If there is any option, once you press the "install" button, to do a default or standard install or a custom install, just choose default or standard. The game should start to install. If there are multiple disks then in the middle of the install its going to ask for the other disk(s). What you do is when the window pops up asking for another disk, just eject the disk that is already in your computer and insert the other one. Once the other disk is in, close the CD-ROM drive and it should continue the install.
Insert the Windows XP CD into the CD or DVD drive.
Restart the computer.
While the computer is starting, repeatedly press F12 every 3 seconds to access the one-time boot menu.
When the one-time boot menu appears, press the Down Arrow to highlight the CD-ROM option that appears, which is one of the following options: Onboard CD-ROM Drive or Onboard USB CD-ROM Drive.
Press Enter.
When the computer boots to the CD-ROM drive, press R to enter the Recovery Console.
Hello, you are so funny SeekPCRepair, when my neighbours went missing she thought it was personal (she has had some wicked pc issues last year!!!) Piap,has the CD rom icon dissapeared off the my computer window? This can mean evil gnomes have stolen it ( a fellow once said) but actually, it is something that sometimes just happens. It can be there one minute and gone the next.
You do need to go through the steps above as SeekPCRepair has said, but if nothing above works, and no entries at all appear for your drive under device manager ( found by clicking my computer, then view system info, then hardware, then device manager) and you have opened up your pc, and checked if the power ribbons (cables) are secure, and then looked for it again, it is either defective or a software issue. If all else fails, you can try editing the registry, as it may be corrupt driver files but first you need to try uninstalling the drive and reinstalling it if you can find the driver deatils. If this does not work, try downloading new driver from manufactures website. Install with this and see if it works. Post back if none of this works above and i will tell you how to step by step edit the registry to repair corrupt files.
Start the Recovery Console
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