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Drives Mysteriously Disappear in Vista

I recently witnessed a strange occurrence where, without any particular reason, my housemates Vista machine suddenly lost all of its CD and DVD drives and seemed unable to find them. He hadn't made any recent hardware or software changes that could explain why this had happened, so we were a little baffled as to the origin of the problem. After reading some voodoo techniques involving putting the computer to sleep and waking it (and voila, mysteriously your drives are back!), we found that giving it a good old System Restore back to around 5 days ago seemed to do the trick. Take note of the timing if this happens to you, as its a lot easier to pull up a system restore than it is to follow the suggestions given here, particularly since some people have claimed the registry entries described don't even exist.

My experience with Vista so far has been much like this. Microsoft has done a fairly poor job this time around, so lets hope they fix it up in later releases. At least they have System Restore I suppose.

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