physical disk sata hard d: went in 'Computer', undeleteable cd rom drive d: shows in its place

windows vista edition operating system home premium

My d drive is a sata hd with a single partition. It has only the data (no installation of operating system or the program)
in car disappeared in 'Computer', but it is detected by my bios, it shows as working properly in Device Manager and appears in... Disk Manager but not allocated.

a CD-ROM cd ghost undeleteable drive shows in places like d:

so far, I tried the following to resolve this situation:

1A ran full virus/spyware scan, computer diagnosis, etc...

2. remove all virtual disk software for example daemon tools, power iso etc...

3. start in safe mode

4 running msconfig and try different boot configurations

5. physically change the sata connector on the motherboard of the drive is plugged

6 unplug the drive from, then stop to connect player departure and back again

7 tried to restore to the point before this happens

None of them brought no success, if anyone has a solution for this, please report it. I would not lose the data on this drive!

Hello

The CD Phatom drive appears in Device Manager as well?

Hardware devices not detected or not working - A Mr Fixit
http://support.Microsoft.com/GP/hardware_device_problems

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If necessary:

Make a Restore Point

Start - type Regedit in the search box - search at the top of list - click on - RUN AS ADMIN

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE

Look here and the other keys to CurrentControlSetX\Enum\IDE where X is a number.

Right-click on the PHANTOM drive and EXPORT the key to name something you remember. Then
Once again right click and delete it. Do the same for all people.

Whether it's there or not go back to Device Manager - right click on the hard drive (D :) and UNINSTALL it.
The reader should be located and re-installed when you restart after checking the GHOST.

If the GHOST is still there, see if you can DELETE it now.

If you can or not - RESTART.

I hope this helps.
Rob - bicycle - Mark Twain said it is good.

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