My CD drive is gone...

[Dem0nS1ayer]

Earlier today, I was playing StarCraft and everything was fine. Then, the game froze because my CD stopped reading the disk or something. That always happens (because my cd drive sucks), so I closed StarCraft and tried to re-open it, but the CD drive was gone! It just disappeared and now none of my disks can work on my computer. Anybody have any clue what could have possible happened to the CD drive???

[Giggilyomeromicon]

restart your computer

[King_Critter]

...I take it that the physical CD drive itself just didn't disappear? Because if it did, I would blame the gremlins. Otherwise, I agree with Giggily.

[Faiien]

this happened to me once
i took out my cd drive manually and plugged everything back in again and voila it appeared in my computer again

[TheBB]

...I take it that the physical CD drive itself just didn't disappear?

Lol, that's how I understood it at first. :D

[Neo]

This might have been better in the Tech Annex, but then that comment might not have been made. Heh. Computer Gremlins woo!

But yeah. Try restarting the computer first, and if the drive is still not showing up, you might have to check the connections (very carefully) between the drive itself and your computer's motherboard.

Though it might be something as simple as the power connector being loose. Though if that was the case, you wouldn't be able to actually open the drive with the button on the front.

Wow, I'm a total geek, wtf.

-Neo

[hammocksleeper]

Lol, that's how I understood it at first. :D

lol me too, i was fucking laughing my ass off. i pictured him reaching for the eject button and the whole drive just sinks into the computer, away from his hand....

[Thedutchjelle]

I would suggest you make it easier for us to understand wtf is going on with your computer xD

Anyway, is there a CD still in the drive? If not, I would suggest putting something in and see if it works again, that sometimes works on my computer.

[Dem0nS1ayer]

Well, it works again... Thedutchjelle, I had put a CD into the drive to rip it onto my computer, and when I clicked on the button to start ripping it, a message came up saying, "There is no CD ROM drive." But it works now...

[Thedutchjelle]

-.-'

I don't know what 'ripping a CD' is but it doesn't sound that legal to me.

Anyway, glad it works again :)

[GrassDragon]

Ripping a CD means taking the music off of it and storing it on your computer. As far as I know, if it's your CD you can rip it for backup purposes legally.

[Neo]

Unless you ask the RIAA/MIAA

smirk

-Neo

[tremaparagon]

Try physically taking it out of the computer and putting it back. That fixed ours. Except for the fact that we found a LIZZIE MCGUIRE CD INSIDE OF THE DAMN COMPUTER. No, not in the disc drive, it was just resting inside the laptop, and when we took it out, the drive worked

[Modred]

Unless you ask the RIAA/MIAA

smirk

-Neo

Luckily for us, the RIAA doesn't actually make the law. If they did, you'd probably need to buy a license to listen to electronic music. I imagine it would required renewal after so many listens or if you changed devices. And unencrypted music formats (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, etc), programs that create them, and players that play them would probably be illegal.

[SilverCrusader]

Luckily for us, the RIAA doesn't actually make the law. If they did, you'd probably need to buy a license to listen to electronic music. I imagine it would required renewal after so many listens or if you changed devices. And unencrypted music formats (MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, etc), programs that create them, and players that play them would probably be illegal.
QFTT
If that ever happened those people would get shot by nerds with blasters. And I'll be suing the pants off them for limiting my "religion of computer freedom"