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Sun, Mar 25, 12 at 17:15
| Okay, I'm not very savvy with computers so I'll explain the best I can. Previously, if I had a folder of photos saved on my desktop, I could right click on the folder, go to 'send to', and then click on D and my photos would transfer to a cd. For some reason, when I click on 'send to', the D isn't there anymore! When I click on My Computer, it isn't there either! How can I get it back? Thanks for any help! (and please remember, I need simple explanations, lol). By the way, I admire all you who talk 'big language' in computers. :) |
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| Hi kessy56, Your DVD RW Drive is not showing in my computer? What is the operating system installed? |
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| When you right-click on Start / Explore All Users, which drives letters are showing? |
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| What happens when you insert a music CD or video DVD in the drawer and close it? Do the LED lights flash on the CD drive? |
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| First of all, I have XP. When I go to My Computer, the D drive is there. (I swear it wasn't there yesterday, but I know that sounds unbelievable). When I put a music cd in a few minutes ago, it played. When I right click on start and go to Explore All Users, it doesn't show any drive. I'll explain a little more about what I have done in the past and what's happening now: I take tons of photos and download them onto my computer. I make folders on my desktop & label them by the month. Then I take the photos out of my easyshare, label them as to the subject and put them into the monthly folder on my desktop. In other words, I may have a folder labeled March 2012 and in it may be a photo labeled "Allison with her cake". Anyway, then I would right click on the folder, click on send to, and then click on D drive and it would copy the photos in that folder to my cd. Well now, when I click on send to, there isn't a D drive in the drop down box. I opened the folder (remember, I'm running XP) and over on the left there is a place labeled "Picture Tasks". It only says view as a slide show, order prints online, or print pictures. It use to have copy to cd there, but that's gone. When I had the folder opened, I went up to "Edit" and the word "copy" is grayed out so I can't click on it. Thanks for your questions in regards to helping me figure this out! |
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| I typed Drive D dissappeard into google got lotta hits. Here is one. Didn't follow it thru tho. This used to happen to me with W/98 or maybe W/95 a lot. Can't recall exactly what I did each time but must have reinstalled it somehow. It got to be a routine PITA. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Disapeerd
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| 1. Open My Computer - click Tools - Folder Options 2. Check "Show hidden files and folders" and uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files" 3. Open D Drive. 4. Check if there is an Autorun.inf exist. 5. Select the file and delete it. 6. Click Start - Run - type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll just copy and paste the the above in bold into the run box. 7 Restart your PC and check if the problem get solved. Let us know. |
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| "When I right click on start and go to Explore All Users, it doesn't show any drive." Did you look closely? If you look at all the listings from top-to-bottom you will find all the drives recognized by the system. That doesn't mean that you will only see the drives listed, and nothing else, because you are looking at a bunch of directories, too. However, if you look at all of these lines, you will see the drives, starting, probably, with "Local Drive (C:)" listed under "Computer," and any other drives in alphabetical order at various places below the listing for C:. If you can't find a listing of your drives, then something is wrong with Windows Explorer. If you are not seeing your drives, what do you see? |
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| Ok Zep, "Show hidden files and folders" was already checked and "Hide Protected Operating System Files" was already unchecked. Then when I clicked on the D Drive, I get a box that appears that tells me to insert a disk into the D Drive. Did you mean to go the the properties on the D Drive? If I do that, the box has General, AutoPlay, Hardware, and Sharing but I don't see anywhere that says Autorun.inf exist. Am I doing something wrong? I sure appreciate this! |
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| Autorun.inf exist. That's ok you don't see that. Copy this--> regsvr32 /i shell32.dll click Start in the start menu look for Run If not we should consider a System Restore. Let us know. |
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| I did what you told me to, zep. When I right click on start and go to Explore All Users, it doesnt show the D drive. Nothing has changed. |
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| Umm, perhaps the D drive does not show when there is no CD in the drive? Right click on Start |
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| If that does not work try the system restore. |
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