how can i reinstall my /D drive?

Question

There is a yellow Exclamation sign to the left of the wording _Nec DVD_RW ND-3520A?

Whats this mean?

And how to i fix it?

Answer 1

How could you remove D. Unless you took out the drivers, or you physically unplugged it.

I am sure your Disk Drive, is there.

Do a system restore.

Answer 2

C'MON GUYS!

Obviously this is labeling a NEC DVD optical drive of some sort. SHEESH!

Try going to your DEVICE manager and deleting the hardware from the hardware tree. Then, click refresh. If the drivers are missing, the exclaimation mark will still exist; and THEN you will then need to recover your system. If the drive is recognized THEN you will have BACK some crazy cool DVD drive of some sort. Hopefully it's a DVDRW drive so you can burn some movies >:)

Answer 3

Assuming this is a case where DVD drive is no longer recognized:

In the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class and scroll down to {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
Click and in the right pane look for the entries "UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters". Delete both.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/EN-US/ describes the problem and gives the solution.

Answer 4

if you want you can reformat it but it would erase everything on it... to reformat just go to control panel then administrative tools then computer management look then look for disk management under storage then right click the drive and re-format. warning: if you have only one hard disk please dont reformat it cause it would cause your computer o.s.(operating system) to crash... if your still not sure have an i.t. or a computer savvy person to help you...

Answer 5

what was your D: drive originally? Was it a partitioned drive to use as system restore? or was it a 2nd HD? or was it a CD/DVD drive? If you never had a partitioned drive, or 2nd HD, it is always will be the CD/DVD drive.