DVD drive disappeared!

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I have a Packard Bell Easynote K5 285 with the standard DVD RW, I think its
Toshiba. I am running XP. The other day the drive just disappeared in 'My
Computer' and now I cannot see any dvd or cd that I put into the computer.
The drive does not even appear on the list of hardware devices...its as if
its vanished! I have tried all of the windows support suggestions and nothing
works, has anyone experienced this before?!

Cheers

 

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Hi

Is the drive seen in the BIOS?

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"Cuchi" <Cuchi@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news95B610C-4A09-411D-A14D-3CA08F0BD44D@microsoft.com...
>I have a Packard Bell Easynote K5 285 with the standard DVD RW, I think its
> Toshiba. I am running XP. The other day the drive just disappeared in 'My
> Computer' and now I cannot see any dvd or cd that I put into the computer.
> The drive does not even appear on the list of hardware devices...its as if
> its vanished! I have tried all of the windows support suggestions and
> nothing
> works, has anyone experienced this before?!
>
> Cheers