Unrelated thing: Disappearing CD-RW
Aug. 4th, 2003 06:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eiriasToday I was mucking about with trying to set up a tiny LAN here with my laptop and my mom's PC. In doing this, some kind of Miniport adapter bridge installed itself, presumably due to the Network Wizard. Good, I thought, less work I'll have to do.
Couldn't get the networking to work, so I thought I'd copy the XP wizard onto a CD-RW and move it to my Win2K box, as it had suggested I do. And then I noticed - the CD-RW drive doesn't seem to exist. It's not listed in the device manager and nothing happens when you try to open the drive.
I don't know whether this is some bizarre result of my network mucking or not; I don't see how it would be, but Windows works in mysterious ways. Right now I'm scanning for viruses, as I know there's at least one virus out there that makes drives disappear. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Does anyone have advice?
Couldn't get the networking to work, so I thought I'd copy the XP wizard onto a CD-RW and move it to my Win2K box, as it had suggested I do. And then I noticed - the CD-RW drive doesn't seem to exist. It's not listed in the device manager and nothing happens when you try to open the drive.
I don't know whether this is some bizarre result of my network mucking or not; I don't see how it would be, but Windows works in mysterious ways. Right now I'm scanning for viruses, as I know there's at least one virus out there that makes drives disappear. Has anyone else seen anything like this? Does anyone have advice?
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Re: :P
Date: 2003-08-04 06:54 pm (UTC)I did try the "Install New Hardware" thing, but it's difficult when it doesn't auto-detect the "new" hardware, because then you have to know exactly what it is you're installing, and unfortunately I don't. :/
Also unfortunately, the machine is no longer under warranty; it was purchased Oct. 2001 and only had 1 year. I do believe that the CD-RW has worked at some point between now and then - my mom tells me she used to use it for taking photos off of photo-CDs, as recently as a month ago. So I'd be really surprised if it were a hardware connection problem.
Perhaps relevantly, after installing the XP network doohickey (some thing calling itself a miniport, aimed at making a "bridge" between this PC's network card and my laptop's), two other devices freaked as well - the printer and DVD-ROM both uninstalled themselves on reboot. However, those errors just showed up as "New Device - Install Driver" or some such, and so were easy to fix. This, not so much. (As is always the case with such wonkiness, disabling the new device didn't help. :P )