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| 11 Aug 2010 | #1 |
| | CD/DVD/BRD drive missing Good morning, everyone. I've got an interesting issue. Sony VGN-NW160J with a BRD drive that does not show under Computer, does not show in the Device Manager or under disk management. The drive functions, as I can boot off a CD/DVD. I have cleared the upper/lower filters. I have ran Microsoft's automated fix. The drive is still missing. No error codes in the device manager or in the event viewer. Anyone got any ideas? |
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| 11 Aug 2010 | #2 |
| | Couple of guesses here, Does it show in disk manangement? Does it have a letter assigned to it? |
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| 11 Aug 2010 | #3 |
| | Welcome to Seven Forums You might want to give the suggestion in post #4 in this thread a try .Fabe Cd\dvd drive missing! Also if you'll scroll down you'll see several simular threads you might want to take a look through. |
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| 11 Aug 2010 | #4 |
| | The drive isn't detected under the management menu. No letter is being assigned to the drive. I tried the reg file in the link provided, no joy. Most of the threads I look thru are resolved with upper/lower filter deletion, which normally works. This one's got me stumped. |
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| 11 Aug 2010 | #5 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by ramp4ge  The drive isn't detected under the management menu. No letter is being assigned to the drive. I tried the reg file in the link provided, no joy. Most of the threads I look thru are resolved with upper/lower filter deletion, which normally works. This one's got me stumped. DVD drive and cd drive is not detected! - CD-ROM-DVD-ROM - Storage |
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| 11 Aug 2010 | #6 |
| | Lots of the same there. More upper/lower filter fixes. Small update, tho. Event Viewer is reporting an error 7026, that the driver for cdrom, even tho it is in startup, is not loading. If I hook up an external CDROM drive, the drive functions and receives a drive letter The internal drive does still function flawlessly outside of Windows.. Any ideas? |
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| 11 Aug 2010 | #7 |
| | Another update. Pulled the DVD drive out of another Sony that happened to use a SATA notebook CDROM drive, and it worked flawlessly as well. Notebook's native drive is a Panasonic UJ130A Unfortunately the Sony I pulled the other drive from is down for an HDD replacement at the moment and I have no other machine to test this drive in. Anyone got any idea how to delete the drivers for the UJ130A so Windows can reinitialize the drive? |
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| 12 Aug 2010 | #8 |
| | Bump? Anyone? Still staring this problem in the face. I'd hate to order another $150.00 BR-drive if this one's not dead, and since I can boot off of it I don't think it's dead. |
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| 12 Aug 2010 | #9 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by ramp4ge Bump? Anyone? Still staring this problem in the face. I'd hate to order another $150.00 BR-drive if this one's not dead, and since I can boot off of it I don't think it's dead. I'm going to see if I can get someone with more knowledge about this to help you. |
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| 12 Aug 2010 | #10 |
| | Have you tried the registry patch from Sony found here: Sony eSupport - VGN-NW160J - Software Updates & Drivers You can also find your chipset driver and other drivers there, one of which (especially the chipset driver) might resolve the issue. |
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