XP wont recognize any of my media, can someone help?

jelford3jelford3
edited March 2006 in Nerdery
Lately my computer will not recognize anything.....cd's, dvd's, flash media, whatever. Normally on windows xp, there will be a window that comes up that asks what I would like to do, play music on which media player, play a dvd on what dvd player, download flash media to whatever file, whatever. But now, nothing. I can go into my computer and double click on the icon that goes to the portal in which my media is located, and it will go ahead and work, but I like the automatic option much better. Did I turn something off on accident, or does this sound like a hardware or software conflict? Thanks for your help.

Jim

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  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    It sounds like you've turned AutoPlay off. Go into the Management Console>>Disk Management and right-click on each drive, left-click on "Properties" and see what it says under the AutoPlay tab.
  • jelford3jelford3
    edited February 2006
    Thats what I thought too, but the auto play is on on all drives (even the numerous flash drives. One thing though, I have two printers which both have 8-in-1 drives and a 9 in 1 drive built into my computer. Of course I dont need all of these, the drives on the printers were just bonuses (slow bonuses) from HP. I was wondering if all of these drives are conflicting with eachother?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    Try using Microsoft's Autoplay Repair Wizard.

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  • jelford3jelford3
    edited February 2006
    I had no idea such a thing exsisted. I will try it when I get home, thanks for the help!
  • jelford3jelford3
    edited February 2006
    jelford3 wrote:
    I had no idea such a thing exsisted. I will try it when I get home, thanks for the help!
  • jelford3jelford3
    edited February 2006
    Well, I tried that auto fix that you sent to me. It took care of the problem in about 15-20 seconds! It looks like it did what it was made to do. Now check this out.......When i first boot up my computer, the auto recognize will work, on any specific drive-once. After it has worked once for that drive, its done. Go to the next drive and it will work-once, and so on. IF you go back to a drive that has already tried its auto recognize, it just sits there and assumes your not looking anyway. (I think thats what its thinking) Any ideas?
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2006
    How many drive letters are showing up in Windows Explorer?
  • jelford3jelford3
    edited February 2006
    profdlp wrote:
    How many drive letters are showing up in Windows Explorer?

    I am not at my computer right now, but I would say about 9 or so.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2006
    With all of the removeable storage drives you have I was wondering if you were running short of drive letters. Nine is not a problem.

    Have you tried reinstalling your chipset and USB Controller drivers?
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