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CRX880A

Started by tlandwehr , Apr 23 2010 08:22 PM

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tlandwehr

Posted 23 April 2010 - 08:22 PM

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I have a Sony Optiarc CRX880A DVD/CD-ROM drive and my computer will no longer recognize it. Any thoughts?

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SpywareDr

Posted 24 April 2010 - 04:53 AM

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Try any, or all four of the following:

Uninstall the drive in Device Manager and then Reboot. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.

or...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060 and then Reboot.

or...
Download and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch:

http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip

(Unzip cdgone.zip, right-click on cdgone.reg, click Merge, Accept, Reboot).

or...
Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers. You'll see two items:
ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)

Right-click on each of them, and click Uninstall and Confirm. When you Reboot they'll be automatically reinstalled.

If the above doesn't help, most likely, the CD/DVD drive is dead.