On Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:33:03 -0700, rsimpson wrote:

> I recently added an additional hard drive and external hard drive as
> well. After doing so neither MY Computer or Windows explorer show them.
> Both internal and external hard drives work just fine. I know that
> there has been as issue with this and after looking at all the
> sollutions on line my head is swimming. I'm sure it has to do with the
> registry but who likes to fool around with that unless they have to!

When I had this problem I used the following VBScript to restore the
missing drives. Just paste the following into a new text file and save it
with a .VBS extension then double-click to run.

Option Explicit
On Error Resume Next

Dim WshShell, Message

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol
\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\UpperFilters"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contr ol
\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\LowerFilters"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces
\Cdr4_2K\"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces
\Cdralw2k\"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces
\Cdudf\"
WshShell.RegDelete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servi ces
\UdfReadr\"
Set WshShell = Nothing

Message = "Your CD/DVD-Rom drives should now appear in Windows Explorer."
& vbCR
Message = Message & "You may need to reboot your computer to see the
change."

MsgBox Message, 4096,"Finished!"

To be safe make sure you make a backup of your registry before running
the script.

Ed Metcalfe.