Help I deleted my cd rom

[pcanada]

I accidentally deleted my CDROM as directed by Norton Anti Virus. Is there a way to get it back? It is not listed in my My COmputer and CDs don't work in it. Thanks

[jdMorgan]

pcanada,

Welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Reboot your machine. Windows should find it and put it back into your devices list.

What version of Windows are you on? Posting this might get you more focused advice.

Jim

[pcanada]

Windows ME. How do I reboot my machine? Is that the same as restarting it? I also can no longer use safe mode. It just rolls like an old tv set. I don't know if I did something there too. Norton told me to delete cdsomething because of Adware, and I deleted 501 items Oops. Thanks Pat

[jdMorgan]

If you're on WinME, I suggest you use System Restore.

Start->Programs->Accessories->System Tools->System Restore.

Choose a restore point from the last time BEFORE you did the delete.

I don't know how you deleted 501 items from a read-only CD-ROM. It's not technically possible. I thought you meant you deleted it from the installed hardware device list.

If this fails, re-install WIndows.

Jim

[pcanada]

I can't use System Restore anymore either. It says there are no dates available. I deleted them by going to Search and typing in CD plus whatever else Norton said, can't remember. Anyway, it came up with 501 items that must have begun with cd. One more question, how do I reinstall Windows? My CD doesn't work. Thanks

[ganderla]

I would go buy a dell for about 300 dollars. Much easier that trying to fix anything. :-)

[jim_w]

I'm sure you checked, but, are they in your recycle bin?

[tbear]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, pcanada.
Good luck getting the machine sorted out.

[Macro]

This may not help but .... here goes

1. Ensure that it is detected in the BIOS (providing, of course, that it is IDE)
2. Check that power is going to it and the motor is spinning (by pressing eject and putting a nice, clean disk in)
3. Go into device manager and delete all optical drives, then restart in normal mode. Windows will pick it up if it's there and working properly.
4. Take a chance of deleting all IDE controllers and rebooting to let Windows detect them.

Or, take it to your friendly, local PC shop.

you can't delete your CD ROM. It is not software, it is hardware

[pcanada]

Thank you everyone for your help. It still doesn't work, but it is nice to have people interested in trying to help. Pat

[longen]

If the CD is "missing", either the driver has been uninstalled, or the CD entry has been removed from the Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager, or its faulty.

Re-installing the Driver from the original CD might help.

[vrtlw]

The final task I do before doing a re-install of Windows is to remove the PCI bus from device manager. Windows will then redetect ALL PNP hardware.

Note: This is only if everything else has failed and you are about to do a re-install

[pcanada]

Thank you everyone for your help. I ended up sending it out to a techician who couldn't get the cdrom back, but did fix the computer. I finally couldn't even boot it up. He said it had 15 virus, many in system restore which is why I couldn't go to an earlier date, and many adware and spyware ......... all of which Norton AntiVirus didn't catch. No more Norton for me. I am back and running $159 later. Have a great Holdiay season! Pat

[stef25]

a prime example of why not to install Norton products! go for freeware solutions like AVG and ditch windows ME too

we all have to learn