WinXP drive icon is missing how to get back?

Computer CD-ROM should be familiar to everyone, we can read the data files on the CD-ROM through the computer CD-ROM drive, generally we can see the icon of the CD-ROM drive in "My Computer". However, users with WinXP system, after opening "My Computer", I found that the CD-ROM icon is gone, what should I do? How to get it back? Now Xiaobian will talk to you about how WinXP can retrieve the computer drive icon.

The method is as follows:

1. Open "My Computer" and find that the CD-ROM icon is gone. The file on the CD cannot be read. How can this be?

2, of course, there are ways to solve this problem, first open the "control panel" at the "start".

3. In the "Control Panel", open the “system”

4. In the System Properties window, select the <quo;Hardware” option.

5. Under the “Hardware” option page, select the “Device Manager” button under <;Device Manager".

6, in the "Device Manager" window, find the "DVD /CD-ROM drive" this item, found the following "ASUS DVD E818A4"; this item has a red cross in front of it .

7, right click on this item, found the second item is "Enable", which means that this item is closed, you need to enable this item, since it is closed, of course, press enable .

8, after the activation, the red fork is gone, then the second item in the right-click menu becomes "deactivate", if you press “ disable & rdquo;, that red cross Will appear again.

9, to "my computer", look at this, the icon of the optical drive has already appeared.

10. If the optical drive in the "Device Manager" is not a red cross, but a yellow warning sign, the drive is damaged, the driver needs to be updated again, or it may be IDE ATA/ATAPI. Under the controller, the "secondary IDE channel" is turned off and turned on.

About WinXP to retrieve the computer CD-ROM icon will be introduced to you in detail; CD-ROM is the computer's hardware device, in the "Device Manager" can see its use, there are problems Can be solved by the above method!