CD drive dissapears/not present

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See Alex Nichol's fix for the 'disappearing' CD drive problem.
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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com

"Chris W" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Every once in a while, a CD/DVD drive will not appear in
> the device list. I have 2 CD-R/W drives and 1 DVD-R/W
> drive in my computer. For some reason, 2 of the drives do
> not appear in My Computer and are inaccessible from any
> part of the computer. I have also tried to find them in
> device manager, but they do not appear as a listed
> device. I have also tried to scan for new hardware but
> with no success.
>
> Help!!
>
> Thank you in advance for your assistance