MISSING cd Drive

Britton30 said:

He owns a desktop and a laptop.

Aaah OK, I just saw the 7 and Vista and immediately thought of what happened to me earlier. My bad.

Please post the output from a Cmd Prompt window

reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}" /s

You could also try this MS Fixit:

Fix problems with CD or DVD drives that can?t read or write media

thegeezerrr said:

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like a said i was going to see if i could load the vista driver but i have to locate the drive first .

I'm guessing that you meant driver, not drive :)

Put the original Optical drive back in the machine and try updating the firmware:
Sony : VGN-FJ3M : SuperMulti Drive Firmware UJ-850BSX1-J

Although it's listed as a Vista version, it shouldn't matter (Vista and Win7 are fairly close and this is firmware for the hardware, not the OS).

Just a heads up - I had a HPcpq laptop with Vista that exhibited the same issue - CD went missing. I reinstalled Vista and it would show up intermittently. Eventually the whole machine died - I opened the box and found a few burned out components. Not worth my time to solder new capacitors or replace the mobo. A new machine solved all the issues with no effort at all.

Bill
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