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Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Drives disappear after SP 2

November 27, 2013
Updated: December 6, 2021
Quick overview:

Are you missing a drive that has suddenly disappeared and was still working perfectly before Service Pack 2? The following tip will certainly help:

Reactivating DVD/CD-ROM drives under Windwos XP

1. press the F8 key directly in front of the Windows XP start logo during startup and select Safe Mode.

2. now right-click on My Computer (see Start menu) and select Properties. Switch to Hardware and open the Device Manager. Now expand DVD/CD-ROM drives or drives (hard disks), right-click on the problematic entry and select Uninstall. After a restart (in conventional mode), the drives will mount themselves again automatically.

We hope that we could help you and that your drives will work with Service Pack 2!

NOTE FOR NEW PUBLICATION: This article was produced by Sandro Villinger and comes from the Windows Tweaks archive, which has been built up since the late 1990s.

Founded Windows Tweaks as a teenager in the 90s. His helpful PC tricks made it Germany's most visited Windows site (at the time Sandro looked like this). He then went on to write elsewhere, for example for PC-Praxis, Computer Bild and PCWorld in the USA. Microsoft also poached him from us. Now Sandro is back, finally sharing his tweaks here again. For a stress-free digital everyday life. You can reach Sandro via e-mail.

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