I haven't played GTAIV in close to 3 weeks now, went to go launch it last night and it say's the drive is not found & I can't update the driver, looked all over google and tried solutions provided, but for some reason the troubleshooters aren't working, the drive itself works, just won't launch anything

this is the error I get:

 

"No DVD/CD Drive Detected"

 

Makes no sense and this is the second time this has happened in the 4 years I've had it.

 

anyone?

This might be a really stupid question but.. uhh.. you have the disc in the drive, correct? 

This might be a really stupid question but.. uhh.. you have the disc in the drive, correct? 

 

LOL I haven't taken it out since I bought the computer Bahaha

lol :p It could be some corruption with Windows too, which should be easily amendable by opening up a commandprompt and typing: 

sfc /scannow

This should verify the Windows files. Other than that, I am quite clueless to what could be wrong. 

lol :p It could be some corruption with Windows too, which should be easily amendable by opening up a commandprompt and typing: 

sfc /scannow

This should verify the Windows files. Other than that, I am quite clueless to what could be wrong. 

 

Say's I have to be an Administrator running a console session? is there a difference in Administrative priviledges? lol

If you have Windows 7, you can disable UAC and try again (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/turn-user-account-control-on-off)

Try uninstalling Itunes. Oddly enough, that worked when I had this problem.

Try uninstalling Itunes. Oddly enough, that worked when I had this problem.

 

Oddly enough I had problems with ITunes last week, uninstalled it and reinstalled it.

Oddly enough I had problems with ITunes last week, uninstalled it and reinstalled it.

I'm pretty sure it's Apple trying to screw with people without Macs. Is Itunes uninstalled now, and is the CD Drive working?

That'd be Apple for ya...

I'm pretty sure it's Apple trying to screw with people without Macs. Is Itunes uninstalled now, and is the CD Drive working?

 

I reinstalled it all after a HUGE headache with it, what would you suggest doing? & no, it's still not working

I reinstalled it all after a HUGE headache with it, what would you suggest doing? & no, it's still not working

Uninstalling Itunes and trying to play GTA 4 while it's stil uninstalled. I know it sounds strange, but Itunes screwed with my CD-Rom drive a few weeks ago.

Uninstalling Itunes and trying to play GTA 4 while it's stil uninstalled. I know it sounds strange, but Itunes screwed with my CD-Rom drive a few weeks ago.

 

Would ICloud & all that have to be uninstalled?

 

Would ICloud & all that have to be uninstalled?

 

I don't know, since I didn't have ICloud before I installed then uninstalled Itunes.

I don't know, since I didn't have ICloud before I installed then uninstalled Itunes.

 

I don't even know what ICloud is to be honest. but I had to delete a bunch of crap I had no idea that was Apple, but i'll give it a try & get back to ya.

lol :p It could be some corruption with Windows too, which should be easily amendable by opening up a commandprompt and typing: 

sfc /scannow

This should verify the Windows files. Other than that, I am quite clueless to what could be wrong. 

 

 

Say's I have to be an Administrator running a console session? is there a difference in Administrative priviledges? lol

 

Please note when doing the sfc /scannow command in the CMD prompt, you have to be in an elevated permissions cmd console. 

 

   To do this, go into your search bar and type 'cmd'. Command prompt should show up in the list of programs you can run, right click it and hit "Run as Admin". Once the prompt appears, enter your command it should work. I've had issues with this before. I'm not too sure if disabling the UAC actually would work for this but I've gotten to work before doing what is above. 

 

Other than that it could be a number of things. The cable connecting to the CD Drive could be loose. CD drive could be dead. GTA IV is being mean, etc. 

Please note when doing the src /scannow command in the CMD prompt, you have to be in an elevated permissions cmd console. 

 

   To do this, go into your search bar and type 'cmd'. Command prompt should show up in the list of programs you can run, right click it and hit "Run as Admin". Once the prompt appears, enter your command it should work. I've had issues with this before. I'm not too sure if disabling the UAC actually would work for this but I've gotten to work before doing what is above. 

 

Other than that it could be a number of things. The cable connecting to the CD Drive could be loose. CD drive could be dead. GTA IV is being mean, etc. 

Yeah I managed to figure out the CMD Prompt earlier after I googled how to use it (lol)

 

But if the drive was dead there wouldn't be power, would there? cause the green light still flashes when I open it & it still opens it, I uninstalled the hardware last night & turned on my computer this morning & it was automatically found, but still, can't find driver updates because it just says it's not installed.

 

@c13- Your suggestion worked, I uninstalled all the ITunes stuff and the drive works fine now, is there anyway around not having ITunes?

Edited February 2, 201412 yr by Slimory

Yeah I managed to figure out the CMD Prompt earlier after I googled how to use it (lol)

 

But if the drive was dead there wouldn't be power, would there? cause the green light still flashes when I open it & it still opens it, I uninstalled the hardware last night & turned on my computer this morning & it was automatically found, but still, can't find driver updates because it just says it's not installed.

 

@c13- Your suggestion worked, I uninstalled all the ITunes stuff and the drive works fine now, is there anyway around not having ITunes?

 

EDIT: Found my problem, drive was toast, topic can be closed now.

Remember to eat that drive with some cheese. Mmmm cheese toast. *cough* Anyway, glad you 'solved' it :p

Since the OP has solved his issue I feel this topic has run its course. Closing topic.  

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