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Ok, I have an Emachine T2482...and it has a cdrw as well as a dvd drive...2
drives. Everything was cool with making copies, until last night. I was
doing something else when I noticed that the cdrw drive was not listed in
*My computer* The cdrw tray works, but windows wasn't recognizing it. I
looked under hardware in my device manager, and lo and behold it's there,
but there's a red x through it. I tried to enable it, but it says windows
couldn't fix it. It also said that devices are normally disabled when they
are not working or there's a conflict. The only thing I added yesterday was
a Logitech keyboard's software. Do you think *that* might have something to
do with it?
 
"Just.some.guy" <return.email@address.not.valid.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, I have an Emachine T2482...and it has a cdrw as well as a dvd
> drive...2 drives. Everything was cool with making copies, until last
> night. I was doing something else when I noticed that the cdrw drive was
> not listed in *My computer* The cdrw tray works, but windows wasn't
> recognizing it. I looked under hardware in my device manager, and lo and
> behold it's there, but there's a red x through it. I tried to enable it,
> but it says windows couldn't fix it. It also said that devices are
> normally disabled when they are not working or there's a conflict. The
> only thing I added yesterday was a Logitech keyboard's software. Do you
> think *that* might have something to do with it?
>

It could well have died, but the first thing to try:
In Device Manager, click to Uninstall the troublesome drive
Reboot, and upon reboot Windows will ReInstall it.
 
Did you uninstall your previous multimedia keyboard software first?

"Just.some.guy" <return.email@address.not.valid.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, I have an Emachine T2482...and it has a cdrw as well as a dvd
> drive...2 drives. Everything was cool with making copies, until last
> night. I was doing something else when I noticed that the cdrw drive was
> not listed in *My computer* The cdrw tray works, but windows wasn't
> recognizing it. I looked under hardware in my device manager, and lo and
> behold it's there, but there's a red x through it. I tried to enable it,
> but it says windows couldn't fix it. It also said that devices are
> normally disabled when they are not working or there's a conflict. The
> only thing I added yesterday was a Logitech keyboard's software. Do you
> think *that* might have something to do with it?
>
 
"Sister Mary" <none@entered.invalid> wrote in message
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> "Just.some.guy" <return.email@address.not.valid.com> wrote in message
> news:cW5dj.18200$1q4.10193@trnddc06...
>> Ok, I have an Emachine T2482...and it has a cdrw as well as a dvd
>> drive...2 drives. Everything was cool with making copies, until last
>> night. I was doing something else when I noticed that the cdrw drive was
>> not listed in *My computer* The cdrw tray works, but windows wasn't
>> recognizing it. I looked under hardware in my device manager, and lo and
>> behold it's there, but there's a red x through it. I tried to enable it,
>> but it says windows couldn't fix it. It also said that devices are
>> normally disabled when they are not working or there's a conflict. The
>> only thing I added yesterday was a Logitech keyboard's software. Do you
>> think *that* might have something to do with it?
>>
>
> It could well have died, but the first thing to try:
> In Device Manager, click to Uninstall the troublesome drive
> Reboot, and upon reboot Windows will ReInstall it.

Thank you...that did it.
 
"RalfG" <itsnotme@la-de-da.deda> wrote in message
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> Did you uninstall your previous multimedia keyboard software first?

Yes, then I did what Sister Mary suggested and it's there now. Thank you
both.

>
> "Just.some.guy" <return.email@address.not.valid.com> wrote in message
> news:cW5dj.18200$1q4.10193@trnddc06...
>> Ok, I have an Emachine T2482...and it has a cdrw as well as a dvd
>> drive...2 drives. Everything was cool with making copies, until last
>> night. I was doing something else when I noticed that the cdrw drive was
>> not listed in *My computer* The cdrw tray works, but windows wasn't
>> recognizing it. I looked under hardware in my device manager, and lo and
>> behold it's there, but there's a red x through it. I tried to enable it,
>> but it says windows couldn't fix it. It also said that devices are
>> normally disabled when they are not working or there's a conflict. The
>> only thing I added yesterday was a Logitech keyboard's software. Do you
>> think *that* might have something to do with it?
>>
>
>
 
"Just.some.guy" <return.email@address.not.valid.com> wrote in message
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> "Sister Mary" <none@entered.invalid> wrote in message
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>>
>> "Just.some.guy" <return.email@address.not.valid.com> wrote in message
>> news:cW5dj.18200$1q4.10193@trnddc06...
>>> Ok, I have an Emachine T2482...and it has a cdrw as well as a dvd
>>> drive...2 drives. Everything was cool with making copies, until last
>>> night. I was doing something else when I noticed that the cdrw drive was
>>> not listed in *My computer* The cdrw tray works, but windows wasn't
>>> recognizing it. I looked under hardware in my device manager, and lo and
>>> behold it's there, but there's a red x through it. I tried to enable it,
>>> but it says windows couldn't fix it. It also said that devices are
>>> normally disabled when they are not working or there's a conflict. The
>>> only thing I added yesterday was a Logitech keyboard's software. Do you
>>> think *that* might have something to do with it?
>>>
>>
>> It could well have died, but the first thing to try:
>> In Device Manager, click to Uninstall the troublesome drive
>> Reboot, and upon reboot Windows will ReInstall it.
>
> Thank you...that did it.

Thanks for the feedback.
>
>
 
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