Windows 10: cd-rom rw drive

recovery driver and f drive disappeared after windows update...also restore points removed so cannot do restore how do i get these back

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Replaced rom drive and it still won't read cd-rw's. What could it be?

Windows 10 Home. Honestly I posted at Windows Forum several days ago, but can't find post to continue posting to.

Anyway, as some of you may remember I couldn't get my rom drive to read cd-rw's. This AM I swapped out rom drive with a new one I had in the closet. It wasn't the drive. It still will not read cd-rw's. So what is the next step? Can we narrow it down? Could it be a more serious problem? Thank you. .

 

CD ROM Drive (D

The CD Rom Drive (D got changed to DVD RW Drive (D during windows update. How do I change it back to CD ROM Drive instead of DVD RW Drive which I don't need.

 

clean possibly infected flash drives and CD-RWs

Your steps in post #1 should work for 99% of viruses that may be on a usb flash drive. However, there are a very few viruses that can infect the MBR of a drive. I would use Diskpart from a command prompt (Admin) to clean them. In the command prompt type DISKPART then, at the Diskpart prompt use the commands:

LIST DISKnote the disk number of the usb and use it in place of # in the command:SELECT DISK #
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

After this you will have cleaned the partition table from the usb and created a partition using the whole of the the available space. You can then format this partition in File Explorer.


For a CD-RW, if you right-click on it in File Explorer there is an Erase option.