Why won't my acer aspire 5100 find my cd drive?

It seems that this is a common problem with this model laptop. There is one of three things occurring: either a fault with the CD-drive itself, a problem with the connector on the motherboard, or a problem with the operating system. For troubleshooting purposes the usual answer is to reload the operating system but if your CD-drive is non-operational that causes a problem doing that.

If there is power going to the drive (you can open and close the drive tray) then a quick fix to try is editing the registry to remove the references to the device. Sometimes third-party software installs device filters that hook the device driver at a very low level and occasionally cause the device to stop working all together if they become corrupted. There are complete step-by-step instructions directly from Microsoft on how to do this --> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/ There is an option to have Microsoft's "Fix It" tool ... more.

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