Can't find a cd or dvd drive?! help please!

I recently went to update my itunes and after i did i keep getting this error
"The registry settings used by iTunes drivers for importing music and burning CDs and DVDs are missing. This can happen as the result of installing other CD burning software. Please reinstall Itunes.
my only issue is that I don't want lose my entire itunes library..if someone can please help me with this issue i would greatly appreciate it

You won't lose any music by uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes. Try and use Microsoft's Cleanup Utility and then reinstall Quicktime/iTunes:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
Make sure it's a new and fresh download from:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/
If that doesn't help, you could try updating your cd burner's drivers:
Updating the drivers on your Windows PC
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300252

Similar Messages

  • Line through a circle symbol, can't find a way around it! Help please!

    On start up of my MDD G4 I am getting a no entry symbol, a circle with a line through it.
    To give the full background of events, 2 evenings ago the Mac froze up for no reason, at the point I think where the screensaver would’ve activated due to inactivity. There was only mail and firefox running at the time, no videos or anything – this error, or at least the freezing of the Mac (no movement even from the mouse) repeated itself later on that night and yesterday evening as well, although the next evening the Mac wasn’t on long enough for the screensaver to start up. On those occasions the Mac restarted fine. Last night however I got the circle symbol but was able to hold down option key and select my previous drive to start up with, I ran Diskwarrior and it found a few faults with my main larger drive and repaired them and the Mac restarted with the larger drive as it’s startup drive absolutely fine. I put the Mac to sleep last thing at night, however this morning it failed to wake – note that the power lights on the Mac and Apple Monitor were glowing and fading fine as they should.
    When I restarted the Mac via the power button on the Mac it started up fine, I had the Mac symbol with the spinning icon (not sure how you describe it!) as normal, however the fans then slowed down as did the hard drive noise and that’s when the circle with the line through symbol appeared.
    So far I have tried disconnecting all peripherals from the Mac, resetting the PRAM, resetting the CUDA switch on the motherboard, starting up holding X and starting up from my Diskwarrior CD – unfortunately even the startup using the Diskwarrior CD fails to bring up a desktop of any sort and instead brings up the circle with a line through it.
    Can anyone shed anymore light on potential problems or more importantly solutions as I’m tearing my hair out on this one!!
    As further info, there are 2 other additional hard drives in my G4, one of which was my main startup drive for around the last year (a 500Gb drive connected via PCI card), which has worked flawlessly until now. I have tried starting up with this drive disconnected but to no avail.
    One more piece of information which may help is that if I hold down the option key at startup the Mac does see both OSX system on my original and additional hard drives (and Diskwarrior CD if inserted) – however no matter which one I select it goes no further than the line through a circle symbol.
    Many virtual drinks for anyone who can solve this!!!!!!!

    One of the Level 4's, the Hatter (I hope he stops by personally) gave me the following insight:
    The hatter wrote:
    A really badly corrupt directory can prevent booting from any drive or media, because they all look to see what other boot volumes are out there.
    With G4/5's the best way to clear corrupt nvram was to boot into Open Firmware and reset nvram and a good idea to do when swapping drives, memory, PCI cards.
    Try booting after removing or unplugging the hard drive. May need to pull it and put in FW case to recover anything.
    So what could have happened when you crashed is that there was disk damage, probably to the disk directory. If that happened say to a single HD, then according to the Hatter, you won't be able to boot from any drive since there's a kind of checking to see what other drives are boot volumes out. That check could be failing in your case because of the directory corruption.
    You have two HDs in your MDD, so either one or both could have suffered directory corruption.
    If I understood one of your posts, you disconnected the SATA drive, and still saw problems. If so, perhaps your old HD suffered corruption.
    So you might try disconnecting the old drive -- be sure to disconnect the data cable because your Mac will can cause fits if the data cable is connected to an unpowered HD. Then try to boot from the Install CD or even Diskwarrior. I'm pretty sure you can boot from the optical drive even if there aren't any HDs.
    If you can boot from CD with no HDs, then we've got it narrowed down to directory corruption. Thereafter, you might see if you attach only the SATA if you can boot to diagnose the just that drive. If you can, that's great because it would mean your backup HD suffered the damage and not your main drive.
    As indicated by the Hatter, if you've got damage to the SATA, it may mean your best chance is to connect it externally. That way you can boot, thereafter connect and diagnose.

  • I Bought CS6 October 2013, and then downed it( je l'ai téléchargé ), but I now only try installing it. I can't manage to do it. I begin to do it, but i can't find any way to continute. Help please, please!!

    I Bought CS6 in October 2013, and then downed it ( je l'ai téléchargé ) in 2014, but, for personal reasons I  only now try installing it. I can't manage to do it. I begin to do it, but I can't find any way to continute. Please, could you help me?
       I have got Windows 8.1. There is a greyish icon indicating a file for CS.
                       N.D.

    Try downloading it again if you are using an older downloaded file.
    http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/cs6-product-downloads.html

  • I need to create a PowerPoint on my iPad so that I can then show it on the mac's at college but I can't find it as an app. Help please.

    Help please I need to find an PowerPoint app as I've got to create one ready to present my artwork on the Mac's at college in the next coming weeks. Thanks
    Ps I've got the latest iPad retina display

    There are several apps in the App Store. Look at them to see what might meet your needs. There is a keynote app that might be best for you.

  • ITunes can't find music on external hard drive Help!

    We moved my friend's iTunes music to an external hard drive. Everything was working fine until this week. Somehow the location of the music got changed back to her C drive. I redid the location but now every song has the exclamation mark. I would trash the music folder on the external drive and have her import the songs again from her DVD back ups but she has over 4,000 songs. Any other way to do this? I'm a Mac person so please explain the PC steps clearly. She is running Windows Vista.
    Thanks for any help you can offer.

    Somehow the location of the music got changed back to her C drive.
    Because iTunes was started with the external drive not plugged in or not online and ready.
    I redid the location but now every song has the exclamation mark
    Select all the songs in iTunes, right click - Get info.

  • Hard drive from G3 to G4, can't get it to recognize DVD drive, HELP!

    Hi, the hard drive in my G4 laptop went kaput so I replaced it with the one from my old G3 (I cannot afford new parts). That HD had OS X 3.9 installed on it and seems to run fine, however, the old computer didn't have a DVD player and now since I put the HD on this one that does, it doesn't recognize it. It seemed to detect all the new aspects of the newer computer like how much ram it has and the processor speed, but it still says it has the old CD-rom drive. Can I do this without wiping the HD and reinstalling OS X because I don't have the installation disks and cannot afford to purchase any? Is there something I can run to auto-detect it? It is crucial that I get this working, I have kids and this computer was our only TV/DVD player! Any ideas? Thank you! In case it helps, the system profiler says this (The model should say DVD too, right?):
    ATA-3 Bus:
    MATSHITA CD-RW CW-8123:
    Manufacturer: MATSHITA
    Model: MATSHITA CD-RW CW-** <Edited by Moderator>
    Revision: CA0T
    Serial Number:
    Drive Type: CD-RW/DVD-ROM
    Disc Burning: Apple Supported/Shipped
    Removable Media: Yes
    Detachable Drive: No
    Protocol: ATAPI
    Unit Number: 0
    Socket Type: Internal

    I don't know how hardware specific OSX installations are but you're jumping a bit from G3 to G4. I also take it you had some version of OSX on this G4 before as otherwise it may need a Firmware update.
    You can try resetting the PRAM and/or CUDA to get the computer to have a fresh look at hardware present.
    [Texas Mac Man's PRAM, battery, PMU tutorial|http://www.geocities.com/texas_macman/pram.html]
    [Apple's PRAM reset directions|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238]
    [Resetting Cuda/PMU on Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, Power Macintosh G3|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86760]
    Failing those, you could try installing Patchburn and see if it helps.

  • Can't Load garageband 3 from DVD? HELP PLEASE

    I bought the ilife'06 DVD and no matter how many times i've tried, it won't install GarageBand 3. I tried to 'customize' install and it didn't work. Everything else updated (i.e. imove6, iphoto6 etc). Can anyone help me?
    I have an ibook G4-OS version 10.4.7. (No dvd burner though).
    Thanks,
    Rick

    Thanks HangTime....i'll just bring it into the store and get them to fix it! I've tried a few times now and now it says"there were errors installing software"."Please try installing again".
    Thanks again Hangtime!

  • Adobe Elements 12 not recognizing DVD drive, Help please!!

    In my Adobe Elements 12 for some reason when I go to burn, it saying no burners detected. Has anyone else had this problem and if so how can it be fixed. Thank you so much in advance.

    cricketsw08
    What computer operating system is your Premiere Elements 12 running on? Have you updated from 12 to 12.1 using an opened project's Help Menu/Update? Please do so.
    Assuming a Windows compute for now.
    Is this "no burner found" situation described as "it never worked before" or "it worked before but not now"?
    If it has worked before, then I would ask
    1. Do you have iTunes on your computer? Have you recently updated it?
    If so, you might consider uninstalling both Premiere Elements 12 and iTunes, and then reinstalling only Premiere Elements 12. I would go through the scenario
    1. Uninstall Premiere Elements 12 and iTunes via Control Panel
    2. Do a ccleaner run through (regular and registry parts)
    CCleaner - PC Optimization and Cleaning - Free Download
    3. Reinstall of Premiere Elements 12 only.
    We will be watching for your results.
    Thank you.
    ATR

  • Can I use an external cd/dvd drive on my iMac?

    I have a 5 year old iMac (2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM) running OSX 10.4.11. We purchased Snow Leopard to upgrade only to find out our cd/dvd drive is broken. It would be about $150 to replace and we're looking to see if we could buy an external drive for any less to get up to speed. We almost never use the disc drive so are hoping to do this in the most economical way possible since we'll also be looking to replace this computer in the next two years or so (or give it over to the kids to play on).
    Thanks for any help or insight you can offer!

    Here are some from Other World Computing, a well respected company on these forums:
    http://eshop.macsales.com/search/cd+burner

  • Trying to install Creative Suite 5.5 can't find install.app on "root drive" of the disc?

    trying to install CS 5.5 can't find install.app on "root drive" of DVD. When I double click on icon it just shows all the languages and documentation, but nothing else - on a mac.

    What Mac? What version of OSX? You need to be more specific. Also make sure you actually have a Mac DVD...
    Mylenium

  • Can i use ANY external CD/DVD drive with the NEW mac mini?

    We just got the newest Mac Mini and want to get an external drive for importing and burning CD's and DVD's.
    Can we use ANY external CD/DVD drive or do we NEED to use the "Apple MacBook Air SuperDrive."
    Thanks
    Eliot

    Maybe.
    I've had some situations where a non-Apple DVD drive would not do a particular job.  When I tried the same project with the Apple SuperDrive everything worked perfectly.
    This is an area where I would not try to save money.
    http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC684ZM/A

  • I am getting the PowerPC applications are no longer supported error, so I downloaded Libreoffice and can not find it on my hard drive anywhere. It did say install to Applications but it's not there. How do I find it and can I put it in my dock?

    I am getting the PowerPC applications are no longer supported error, so I downloaded Libreoffice and can not find it on my hard drive anywhere. It did say it would install to Applications, but it's not there. How do I find it and can I put it in my dock?

    In Safari's preferences:
    Look in the folder displayed where you see the arrow. The actual Downloads folder is found in your Home (user) folder.

  • How can one find out how much hard drive space the apps and media are using?

    how can one find out how much hard drive space the apps and media are using?

    See Here  >  Where did my Disk Space go?
    And Here  >  The Storage Display

  • RT: Remote desktop says "can't find a suitable device for drive C"

    Hello,
    there is a french post on exactly the same topic, but I can't apply the solution given there.
    My problem is the following: I have a remote desktop prepared to work as RT target. It has been checked for compatibility, the hard drive has been formatted in FAT32 format, it has been found by my host and has been assigned a static ip address. I have installed the software I need ( LabView 9.0 RT) using MAX. Now, when I try to boot it with the option "boot using software installed into the hard drive", all I get is the message
    "Can't find a suitable device for drive C"
    I have reseted the BIOS, have tried formatting the hard drive in the other format, uninstalled and reinstalled the software, tried to start the target pc without the usb stick, but nothing seems to work.
    Do you have any ideas about what is going wrong?
    Thank you,
    Samuel
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    So you've got a IDE (and not SATA) hard drive? That should be supported anyway.
    That would only confirm my experience... it's hard to find hardware compatible with LV RT. Before buying you cannot know if it's compatible. Once you have it the evaluation tool might tell you it's supported but still it might not work. I tried several motherboards in the last years, most of them did not work.
    Your best bet might be to use relatively old hardware.

  • Where can I find a sql server 2000 driver which supports JDBC 2.0?

    Where can I find a sql server 2000 driver which supports JDBC 2.0?
    Thanks!
    Paul.

    Here is another.
    http://www.datadirect-technologies.com/download/downloadindex.asp
    The JDBC 3.0 driver will work in a JDBC 2.0 environment (i.e with J2SE 1.2 or 1.3)
    provided you use only JDBC 2.0 features of the driver
    "Sree Bodapati" <[email protected]> wrote:
    >
    >
    http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?URL=/downloads/sample.asp?ur
    l=/msdn-files/027/001/779/msdncompositedoc.xml&FinishURL=%2Fdownloads%2Frele
    ase%2Easp%3FReleaseID%3D38312%26area%3Dsearch%26ordinal%3D1%26redirect%3Dno
    Microsoft.com downloads :)
    http://www.inetsoftware.de/English/Produkte/JDBC_Overview/ms.htm
    www.inetsoftware.de
    are a couple.
    sree
    "pronane" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]..
    Where can I find a sql server 2000 driver which supports JDBC 2.0?
    Thanks!
    Paul.

Maybe you are looking for