Elessar-Eärfalas Posted November 16, 2002 Posted November 16, 2002 my sis just installed daemon tools for some reason, and so it was installed and everything rite. but now that she cued a game or something, my d: is deleted and i cant even open my cd-rom!!!! does anyone kno how this happened and how i can fix it? cuz i reall yneed to be able to play games and such with my cd-rom...lol
Elijah Posted November 16, 2002 Posted November 16, 2002 Ummm i think this goes in the "Technical Help" forum... but have you tried putting a CD rom into your drive?
Elessar-Eärfalas Posted November 16, 2002 Author Posted November 16, 2002 ya i cant even open my drive, no lights are on and when i press the buttoms nothin happens...its like the drive has been turned off or somethin...or like uninstaled...
Elijah Posted November 16, 2002 Posted November 16, 2002 do you have the drivers for your drive? if so install them.
Elessar-Eärfalas Posted November 16, 2002 Author Posted November 16, 2002 ya there all updated, its just like my comps not even finding any drives....they were all deleted or somethin:mad:
Elessar-Eärfalas Posted November 16, 2002 Author Posted November 16, 2002 phewph! i figured out the problem, its all good now...thx for the help zdawg, sorry bout botherin everyone else, lol its all good now...
Acrylic Posted November 16, 2002 Posted November 16, 2002 what was wrong. what happened for you to figure out what was wrong?
Elessar-Eärfalas Posted November 16, 2002 Author Posted November 16, 2002 oh well i uninstalled the game that wuz making it currupt, then i uninstalled daemon tools. then i shutdown my comp, waited a lil while, turned it bak on and the drives were working again, phewph, i woulda been in trouble if they didnt, heh...
Wes Marrakesh Posted November 17, 2002 Posted November 17, 2002 What are these daemon tools? Sounds as if their name suits...
BCanr2d2 Posted November 17, 2002 Posted November 17, 2002 Daemon tools, from memory, have one piece of their functionality to allow "fake" CD-ROM's to be used. If you have the space you can use your hard drive as the CD-ROM, which obviously reads a lot faster than any CD-ROM....... Usually daemon is used in reference to internet servers, and generally connections for websites.....
Elijah Posted November 17, 2002 Posted November 17, 2002 you can "mount" a CD image... it uses space on your HD but its alot faster than a CD-ROM.
BCanr2d2 Posted November 17, 2002 Posted November 17, 2002 Probably explains why it was making his CD-ROM play up a bit. I like the idea of mounting images this way, have used it before, but not for ages......
Elessar-Eärfalas Posted November 17, 2002 Author Posted November 17, 2002 yah daemon tools is actually a really sweet program, but i guess i used it wrong and shut down my drives or somethin, lol aw well, its all good now...
ondrahosek Posted November 17, 2002 Posted November 17, 2002 From time to time, if your drives just hide, you may also try tweaking the registry: [*]Press Start > Run [*]Type regedit and press enter. [*]Got to this key on the left side of the window: My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} [*]Delete the values LowerFilters and UpperFilters on the right. [*]Restart the PC. [*]Pray it will work. [*]Start explorer. [*]Check if it worked. [*]Thank/spank me. [/list=1] Easy enough, when you eliminate the last step.
Elessar-Eärfalas Posted November 18, 2002 Author Posted November 18, 2002 sweet, even though i already got it fixed, ill keep that in mind if it happens again, or anythin like that:p
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