What should I do if the optical drive icon of the WinXP system does not exist? No retrieval method for the optical drive icon of the WinXP system computer

You should be familiar with the computer optical drive. The optical drive is a computer hardware device. You can see its usage in the "device manager. Recently, user feedback from WinXP system showed that the optical drive icon was missing after "My Computer" was opened. What should I do? The following section describes how to retrieve the optical drive icon of a computer using WinXP. Let's take a look!

The method is as follows:

1. Open "My Computer" and find that the optical drive icon is missing. The files on the optical drive cannot be read;

2. Of course there is a way to solve this problem. First, open "control panel" at "start ";

3. Open "system" in "control panel;

4. In the system properties window, select the hardware option;

5. On the "hardware" option page, select "Device Manager" under "Device Manager;

6. In the Device Manager window, find the "DVD/CD-ROM drive" item and find a red cross in front of the "asus dvd E818A4" item below;

7. Right-click this item and find that the second item is "enabled". It means that this item is disabled and needs to be enabled. If it is disabled, press enable;

8. After the feature is enabled, the Red Cross disappears. In this case, the second item in the right-click menu becomes "disabled". If you press "disabled", the Red Cross will appear again;

9. Check on "My Computer". The optical drive icon is displayed;

10. If the optical drive in the device manager is not a Red Cross but a yellow warning sign, the driver is damaged and the driver needs to be updated again, alternatively, the secondary IDE channel under the ide ata/ATAPI controller is disabled. Open it.

The above section describes how to retrieve the optical drive icon of a computer in WinXP. Users who encounter the problem of the disappearance of the optical drive can follow the above steps! Hope to help you!