I was looking through old posts hoping to find a easy solution to the
following problem: My CD/DVD went missing. I tried re-loading drivers from
on-line. no luck. I tried a system-rollback - no luck.

As it was a Toshiba product - I went to they're website - they provide no
support or community help. I would happily re-boot the system - but I dont
have a cd/dvd drive anymore! I tried putting the the Boot disks on my jump
drive but it wouldn't fit.

Some of the answers from old posts talked about cdrom.sys file and offered a
link but the link is no longer there. Hopefully somneone still has the answer?

Matt Armshaw

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:48:00 -0700, Matthew Armshaw
<MatthewArmshaw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I was looking through old posts hoping to find a easy solution to the
>following problem: My CD/DVD went missing. I tried re-loading drivers from
>on-line. no luck. I tried a system-rollback - no luck.
>
>As it was a Toshiba product - I went to they're website - they provide no
>support or community help. I would happily re-boot the system - but I dont
>have a cd/dvd drive anymore! I tried putting the the Boot disks on my jump
>drive but it wouldn't fit.
>
>Some of the answers from old posts talked about cdrom.sys file and offered a
>link but the link is no longer there. Hopefully somneone still has the answer?

It's possible that the drive just died.

Do you know how to set your system BIOS to boot from a CD if one is in
the drive? Doing that, and attempting to boot from your Windows CD
will answer the question whether or not the drive has died.

Thanks for the input. I tried the system rollback again last night after
posting my message. Everything seems to be running fine. Thanks again.

Matt Armshaw

"Nonny" wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:48:00 -0700, Matthew Armshaw
> <MatthewArmshaw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> >I was looking through old posts hoping to find a easy solution to the
> >following problem: My CD/DVD went missing. I tried re-loading drivers from
> >on-line. no luck. I tried a system-rollback - no luck.
> >
> >As it was a Toshiba product - I went to they're website - they provide no
> >support or community help. I would happily re-boot the system - but I dont
> >have a cd/dvd drive anymore! I tried putting the the Boot disks on my jump
> >drive but it wouldn't fit.
> >
> >Some of the answers from old posts talked about cdrom.sys file and offered a
> >link but the link is no longer there. Hopefully somneone still has the answer?
>
> It's possible that the drive just died.
>
> Do you know how to set your system BIOS to boot from a CD if one is in
> the drive? Doing that, and attempting to boot from your Windows CD
> will answer the question whether or not the drive has died.
>

I just saved this link in my favorites, happens from time to time.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b/929461/en-us

"Matthew Armshaw" <MatthewArmshaw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:F9DAC8DB-A677-4470-9636-2FEED254F074@microsoft.com...
> I was looking through old posts hoping to find a easy solution to the
> following problem: My CD/DVD went missing. I tried re-loading drivers
> from
> on-line. no luck. I tried a system-rollback - no luck.
>
> As it was a Toshiba product - I went to they're website - they provide no
> support or community help. I would happily re-boot the system - but I dont
> have a cd/dvd drive anymore! I tried putting the the Boot disks on my jump
> drive but it wouldn't fit.
>
> Some of the answers from old posts talked about cdrom.sys file and offered
> a
> link but the link is no longer there. Hopefully somneone still has the
> answer?
>
> Matt Armshaw
>