Hello all,

One of the removable drives(drive E) is missing. There is every drive from Local Disk C and D to the removable drives, F-I, excluding E. It is the removable drive used by my portable cd player and some other removable media(ie flash drives). I need it to install the driver for the portable CD/DVD drive(LG GP10NW20).

Any help is much appreciated.

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It still can spot USB Flash drives! It only hates the CD/DVD player.

-Mel

cd/dvd drives dont need a driver normally, try plugging it in a different usb port, if its still not showing try a different usb cable (if you can), is anything happening at all (blinking lighs, sound its spinning up), also try the drive on a different machine to check thats not the problem

Originally Posted by popeye67

cd/dvd drives dont need a driver normally, try plugging it in a different usb port, if its still not showing try a different usb cable (if you can), is anything happening at all (blinking lighs, sound its spinning up), also try the drive on a different machine to check thats not the problem

Tried that, it has a y head usb cable. I can get the device on and working, light blinking insert/takeout cd's/dvd's. But it wont show up in My Computer, and RM E is still invisible, only pops up if I plugin a usb flash drive which has some mp3 files in it.

Is there some hidden driver I can uninstall, and re-install? In the "Safely Remove Hardware" dialog(Display device components checked) it is under USB Mass Storage Device> HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GP10NW20 USB Device.

You can see the CD/DVD player here: Optical Storage | LG GP10NW20 External DVD Burner | LG Electronics Canada
or
GP10NW20 Optical Storage IT Product

does it work on another computer reading the disc and burning, shouldnt really need drivers, try plugging something else in so that drive E is taken then try plugging it back in another port if it doesnt show up i would say its bit the dust

I've had usb drives do that but it was almost a bad usb driver for the USB CHIPSET or a failing usb port.

Originally Posted by popeye67

does it work on another computer reading the disc and burning, shouldnt really need drivers, try plugging something else in so that drive E is taken then try plugging it back in another port if it doesnt show up i would say its bit the dust

No other machine to try it on. Its only two month old, and hasn't been misused. There is one USB port that doesn't work properly, but the rest seam to work fine.

Originally Posted by popeye67

try plugging something else in so that drive E is taken then try plugging it back in another port if it doesnt show up i would say its bit the dust

I've tried that already, but I will give it another shot.

Originally Posted by William

I've had usb drives do that but it was almost a bad usb driver for the USB CHIPSET or a failing usb port.

I hope its only a bad USB chipset. Its only two month old, so the warranty will take care of payments; though it isn't nice to know it didn't survive two month. :P

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try a system restore, sounds like something might have become corrupted, and if thats the case i would start looking for malware

Originally Posted by popeye67

try a system restore, sounds like something might have become corrupted, and if thats the case i would start looking for malware

Its been over a week since it hasn't been working, if I restore now it might cause more trouble since I've uninstalled three programs. :/

system resore shouldnt do any harm, im talking about turning back to earlier date not using install disc

Originally Posted by popeye67

system resore shouldnt do any harm, im talking about turning back to earlier date not using install disc

Yea, every time I used system restore it brought back everything it could. even files(shortcuts, .exe files, etc) of programs that were uninstalled, but it doesn't bring back the uninstalled programs, just some random files. So clicking the .exe file isn't going to open any program, just a wrong path dialog.

But if I don't find any other solution, I might go with system restore.