I'm running win xp on vb 5.1.28, under Win 10. It has somehow lost its ability to find the CD/DVD drive. It worked some time in the past, allowing me to install soft ware, but no longer. When I open the xp virtual machine, it tells me that the drive is empty, even when it is not. I run all the troubleshooting steps, and while it tells me the device is present, it can't find the disk that is there.
Under the Manager screen, I click on settings, then storage, under the Controller: IDE there is (in addition to windows xp.vdi) what appears to be a CD icon with the word 'empty' beside it. 'Attributes: optical drive' is grayed out. Clicking and unclicking 'live cd/dvd' has no effect.
What do I do?
dave
vb can't find cd/dvd drive
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Re: vb can't find cd/dvd drive
You have to click the right CD icon and either select the host drive passthrough (as in the picture) or an ISO image.
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