internal DVD not recognized

[imported_sgtbe]

Hello to all,
I have an issue with my laptop as referenced in the message and title. Here is what happened:
After backing up some video of my sons birthday party on a dvd using NERO I tried using my dvd shortly afterwards but could not play dvd's. I have gone into system through start and control panel, deleted an ivi drive, the scsi and ata just to try and get this internal dvd working, before the burn I only had my actual dvd, never a virtual. To no suprise it is not working. I tried through safe mode also, going through (F2) setup I show my dvd, on boot up it shows my dvd, but if I try and use that drive it's either not there (becuase I deleted it out of the system) or it shows as a virtual, which I don't use, nor had I really even looked into until I had this issue. I use Shrink, Nero and dvdfab if needed, running an older amd 3.2, 1.5gig mem, winxp svc pak 2. I use the usual virus scan stuff that is avast, lava-soft, spybot and the counterpart for that (which I cannot think of right now). No other issues for quite some time.
Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[phisrow]

I'd recommend taking a look at the disk management panel, if you haven't already. That will show you all volumes that Windows knows about, whether or not they have assigned drive letters or mountpoints. Once in there, you ought to be able to remove or reshuffle drive letters so that your physical drive gets the one you want.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844/ is MS's help doc on poking at drive letters. Hopefully your problem is just caused by your physical drive losing its letter assignment. If so, easy fix. If not, I'm afraid I'm not at all sure what the problem would be.

 

[imported_sgtbe]

phisrow,
thanks for the idea, I'll check after work/
Good idea, but the only items under disk management are the c: and usb. Thanks for the idea, anyone else have an idea? Any help is greatly appreciated.