Re: Satellite M115 - CD drive works sporadically

I've had my Toshiba for 5 years and for maybe the past 3 or 4 the CD drive hasn't worked properly. When I go to windows explorer, the CD drive only appears occasionally.
I'm not in the market for a new laptop, because I'll be leaving the country for two years and will have no use for a new computer.
Any suggestions on how to fix this? Right now I just keep rebooting it until it recognizes the drive.

Hi
Maybe deleting the upper and lower filters from registry could help you to fix this.
So firstly delete the ODD from the device manager list.
Then start the registry and delete the upper and lower filters as described here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270008/en-us
Then reboot the notebook and wait until the ODD driver has been installed.
Then check the functionality.

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