My ''e drive'' has suddenly disappeared

[June-the-Girl]

My e drive has vanished from my computer.  It was there one day, but now it's just gone.  I can't seem to get my computer to acknowledge its existence.  Can anyone help my get my computer to know what it has on it -- again?

OS: Windows vista home premium, sp1
''E drive'' is reading and recording disc drive for cd's

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

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My e drive has vanished from my computer.  It was there one day, but now it's just gone.  I can't seem to get my computer to acknowledge its existence.  Can anyone help my get my computer to know what it has on it -- again?

OS: Windows vista home premium, sp1
''E drive'' is reading and recording disc drive for cd's

WEll, you need to put a cd in for it to show up.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Hmmmm.....thanks for editing the post....... 

[Broni]

you need to put a cd in for it to show up

This is incorrect.

June-the-Girl
Try one of these:
1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
or...
2. http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip
or...
3. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstal. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.

[June-the-Girl]

I have tried the technique given in response to my original post and it now seems to be working.  I would like to thank whomever sent me the response in taking the time to have helped me in this matter.  I sure do appreciate it.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Glad you got it working.

What exactly did you do?
The above advice?

[June-the-Girl]

I started with step 2 and proceeded with 3 .  And it still is working.  I could get used to this.

[Broni]

I could get used to this.

You don't like your drive working??

[drmsucks]

I started with step 2 and proceeded with 3 .  And it still is working.  I could get used to this.

Odd that someone would ignore MS

[June-the-Girl]

I could get used to this.

You don't like your drive working??

Yes, I do!  That's what I meant...

[street1 (RIP)]

I could get used to this.

You don't like your drive working??

Yes, I do!  That's what I meant...

Well, we try to confuse when we can....

[Broni]

Yeah, we like to joke around a little

[GregP]

This is incorrect.

June-the-Girl
Try one of these:
1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
or...
2. http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip
or...
3. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstal. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.

My E drive vanished after connecting a camera to a USB port(??Q!)

Broni, many thanks for that but i have only one ATA Channel ('0'), which i uninstalled then rebooted (and thus reinstalled) but the E drive is still missing. Any further advice you can offer?

Cheers,

Greg

[Broni]

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