Hello i'm having HP PAVILLION DV6000 and OS is VISTA HOME PREMIUM .My problem is that my system does'nt show any dvd drive in MY COMPUTER. I am having PIONEER DVDRW DVR-K17B ATA Device .device manager show a yellow icon and tells that it needs driver. It was working properly before. I have same prob.,Device Mgr doesn't show it. Worked fine for a year then all of the sudden gone.
The driver for the device would have been corrupted by some incompatible drivers loaded onto your pc lately. It could also be that the device has been mistakenly disabled. If not, disable the device and restart your pc. After it stabilized on the desktop, go back to the Device Manager and enable it again. If nothing still happens, go through Control Panel and remove the driver from installed programs. Shut down your pc and disconnect the device. Leave for about 10 minutes and recoonect and power on the pc, the device should be detected by the pc and then install its drivers. If it doesn't detect the device, it has probably gone bad and should be replaced. Good luck
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I don't think this is necessarily the case let me explain. First it is an HP pavilion dv9815nr, Vista Home Premium 32 bit, Quanta Motherboard,Nvidia Graphics.The laptop started running Hot several weeks ago and has been randomly shutting down. I noticed the DVD one day the was not showing up in Start>Computers with the other drives. So I looked In Device Mgr and no listing there. I had just update with Vista Service Pack 2 and Kaspersky Internet Virus's latest update 506. Had been having other troubles on another comp. with what I thought to be Kaspersky. I removed Kaspersky off my laptop and the Dvd came back. So I thought something in their program.So I went a couple of days and Bam no DVD. What is up? I worked trying to locate problem to no avail so I decided to do a Factory recovery. As I was moving Data to another external drive I noticed the dvd was showing up again,hmmm this crazy it stayed about ten minutes then was gone again. I continued on with recovery, after complete recovery to like the day I brought home and unboxed with no updates, no nothing still had no dvd/cd. Went ahead and loaded updates still no dvd. I started loading online Diagnostic Tools and a free anti virus still had nothing, then it popped up again so I'm thinking maybe this thing is loose in the pin socket, randomly shaking or something losing connection, but I kind of eliminated this theory because from the start even though it does not show up it will still light up and spin as if it is reading the disk.Ok I decided to Factory sweep again after I did this time it was there to start off then went back off an hour or so later after getting some updates from both HP and Microsoft. It will not show up in Command prompt>Diskpart>List Volume either even thought dvd spins and read light flickers.I'm thinking of sweeping again and not doing any updating, but this takes a lot of time, so I'll let you all know how that goes Thanks Ted
Well did another factory recovery. DVD is not being recognized so in my opinion it must be in the dvd itself
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