My CD Drives have vanished!

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Boot into Safe Mode, open Device Manager, remove both devices, reboot and
let Windows find the drivers.

"Kat" <katwojcik@excite.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all, hope you can help me. My CD and DVD drives
> have vanished! I'm sure it's all my fault but anyway. In
> the device manager there are exclamation icons next to
> both drives confirming the drive status as having a
> missing or corrupted driver. (They are still present in
> BIOS and fully functional) Have unplugged both drives
> from the MB, re-booted without them and re-booted again
> with them connected. Same problem. System restore
> doesn't work either. Should I re-install XP again? Will I
> lose all of my work by doing this? Or is there another
> way. Please show me the light!
> Thanks, Kat

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I have the same problem using Windows 2000...any idea of a fix?

Thanks, Ian

Kat wrote:
> *Hello all, hope you can help me. My CD and DVD drives
> have vanished! I'm sure it's all my fault but anyway. In
> the device manager there are exclamation icons next to
> both drives confirming the drive status as having a
> missing or corrupted driver. (They are still present in
> BIOS and fully functional) Have unplugged both drives
> from the MB, re-booted without them and re-booted again
> with them connected. Same problem. System restore
> doesn't work either. Should I re-install XP again? Will I
> lose all of my work by doing this? Or is there another
> way. Please show me the light!
> Thanks, Kat *



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See Alex Nichol's fix at:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
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"Ian Turner" <Ian.Turner.1as303@mail.mcse.ms> wrote in message
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>
> I have the same problem using Windows 2000...any idea of a fix?
>
> Thanks, Ian
>
> Kat wrote:
>> *Hello all, hope you can help me. My CD and DVD drives
>> have vanished! I'm sure it's all my fault but anyway. In
>> the device manager there are exclamation icons next to
>> both drives confirming the drive status as having a
>> missing or corrupted driver. (They are still present in
>> BIOS and fully functional) Have unplugged both drives
>> from the MB, re-booted without them and re-booted again
>> with them connected. Same problem. System restore
>> doesn't work either. Should I re-install XP again? Will I
>> lose all of my work by doing this? Or is there another
>> way. Please show me the light!
>> Thanks, Kat *
>
>
>
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