After setup CD drive disappeared

[Marmot]

Hello to you all!
I have been using Virtual Clone Drive for quite a long time on many PCs, but today I had a problem that I never had before: I tried to install VCD on a PC with OS Windows 2000; everything seemed to work, but after installation the CDrom drive had disappeared (and didn't appear even after I had uninstalled VCD) and I couldn't set any virtual unit.
Do you have any idea about how to restore the CDdrive; and have VCD working? And why did this happen?
Thank you!
Clare

[Ronan]

I am no expert at all, but im looking for help myself so thought I make the effort I mite get good karma lol. I'm prob bein too simple, but if you install VCD, then go to VCD Prefs in the Virtual Clonedrive file, theres a drop down menu for the number of drives you want to use, and perhaps it was for some reason disabled on yours...? Mite help. But not sure im afraid

[pseudo555]

Try to desinstall the primary/slave ide channel in the Device Manager (->IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers) and reboot.

[allanjr]

We found a similar problem, in a PC with two CDRoms. In Device manager the CDRW displayed as a red-X, indicating it was unavailable. We simply right-clicked the CDRW and chose "uninstall" then rebooted. The two drives appeared normally after the reboot.

(By the way, changing the number of Virtual drives does not help.)