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Re: DVD not showing up in XP

When XP starts up it scans the system for PnP devices and installs the appropriate drivers (from it's drivers library) for whatever it finds. Your XP installation is screwing that up. Probably some corrupted DLLs or maybe INFs. I would reinstall or run a repair on XP. Another possibility is bad …

Re: DVD not showing up in XP

I tried both of those solutions. It is not a hardware detection issue because both the BIOS and Win7 show it fine. Something in XP is failing to detect all of a sudden. When I tried the registry thing, there were no upper and lower entries at all. If it's as you said and completely missing in XP …

Re: DVD not showing up in XP

I haven't had this happen for years so I'm a bit rusty as to the fixes. Try this. Power down. Disconnect the drive. Boot all the way into XP (with no DVD drive) Power down again. Reconnect the drive. Boot into XP again. If it doesn't find the new device then try the "Find New Hardware" wizard. .

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