CDROM Icon Missing - Comments Page 8

Wooo hooo! I praise The Lord for you precious Bob! I had NO IDEA what I was going to do when this problem occured the other day. Finally after 4 days of pickin' around on this here machine and becoming more and more frustrated, I prayed and asked God to lead me on what to do to solve this problem of the missing CD ROM...and before I knew it I was viewing your page...

I thank you for for being here and sharing your knowledge with us! You have a beautiful heart and you even made me giggle with your short witty statements. I trusted whatever you had to instruct to fix the problem because of that!
I ended up doing the last thing of going into the registry....It worked quick as a wink! What a guy! (((cyber HUGS)))
I'm keeping you on the TOP of my list! Thank you again! God keep blessin' you and yours. Cyndi

Thanks!I needed this information badly.... Thanks a lot....

i have windows xp sp2 installed in my computer. one day i switched on the system. after booting it gave a message that..windows has shutdown to save the data from ur computer(something like that) then i took my windows xp cd..and repaired the operating system..and..when it was completed..i found that both my Cd and Dvd rom's were missing.. then well..i tried all the above methods..but..of no use...

i am not able to decide..whether to frieshly install xp ..or there is anyother way. please help me......

EDITOR'S NOTE: If the registry trick did not work, I'd suggest a fresh install.

Thank you so much! God bless you!

Bob - Magnificent advice and well presented. I too had a similar problem with icons missing and had to do a system restore every day. I was ready to buy a new machine then found your site. Your ‘surgical’ advice worked perfectly and was easy to follow. I have added your site to my favorites and will check here first with all future computer problems! Thank you!

Im having the same problem with my cdrom. Im on WinME and when I look in the registry there is no registry entry that you describe. Id format but I have no disks.

ya,thanks alot for the registry editor,i havent known about this,so i searched the internet to find any new ways,so got ur site,i have done it and worked just now. ,thanks a lot
ps--would you plz tell how the registry works for this cd problem.
if it will be a great help for me ,because i am working in the computer hardware field.

bob, can you help me? my Registry Editor has only one icon, "Default"... i just uninstalled my Burning files, then poof.. 1 day after my CDROM icon is gone. what will i do... i have a TSSTcorp CDRWDVD TS-H429C... i cant install new programs... help me please...

EDITOR'S NOTE: I would remove the drivers for the device, then download and re-install.

You are so great. I have searched on internet for 2 days and tried everying to no avail. And with your instruction, I fixed my problem in 1 min. Thank you so much!

cheers bob, the regedit worked for me. pretty sure it was google brought me here not divine intervention like some earlier posts! take it easy. cheers