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Will the cd drive show up in windows explorer in the absence of any cd/dvd

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Shane:
Ah so the problem was with windows explorer and not my computer. I had trouble understanding what problem you where having :-)

Yes in the folder options there is an option to hide empty drives. I always have mine set to show all.

But I didnt know that applied to cd drives :wink:

Shane

jraju:
hi, Shane, sir, i did not mean that option. Please see the General tab, there is option to show all drives. That should be ticked. Screen shot

Shane:
Oh, your just talking the left bar in the explorer window. I thought you meant in "My Computer"

Shane

jraju:
Hi, Shane, my dvd again gave me problem of ejecting when i try to click open data dvd. I tried your and microsoft fix for the same. But i could not make any progress. Once i insert the cd , the light goes out and nothing happens. I tried all the registry fix supported by microsoft but no cure. Atlast, in one of their replies, it was said that "net start shellhwdetection" may solve my problem. The command solved the problem and i could read the drive.  By what this  command is connected with cd or dvd. Please tell, if this is also concerned, then you could improve the cd dvd fix. I surfed the net, but could not get the meaning. pl tell

jraju:
Hi, Shane, I have gone through the net and found it is a service. How it be stopped automatically when the default setting is automatic and i did not meddle with the services entries in the services.msc. Could any virus or third party trojan would have stopped this services. I was thinking of replacing the cd drive, when i chanced upon this solution. Please your comments. i checked the event viewer for these problematic days and found that device cd rom has a bad block. Should that mean , that i have to replace the cd drive itself or cleaning would be enough. I am using this cd drive for more than 7 years. Is there any simple way of cleaning it. Just removing and cleaning the dust .

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