Can't find the CD or DVD drives 1

[zenaty2]

My XP pc has just (2 days) stopped recognising either my cd or DVD drives Any ideas

 

[edemiere]

Ensure the cable is plugged firmly into the motherboard adn each drive and see if that helps.

 

[smah]

Did you uninstall EZ CD Creator by any chance?

 

[zenaty2]

I only have Roxio CD creator why?

 

[Badfinger2003]

Try shutting down and unpluging both cd drives and rebooting the machine. Then shut down and reconnect the drives and boot the machine. this will get your drives back.

Badfinger cruising the information hiway.

 

[bcastner]

smah was thinking of this issue:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060ot.htm

Which I would follow even if you did not uninstall EZ CD. If you look at this site there is a .reg patch already available to make the change, plus some helpful suggestions on IDE channel settings. Scroll down and look at Problem #2:

http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

 

[bcastner]

Sorry, my first link got garbled:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

 

[Boidy]

try going into administrative tools (in the control panel) and into computer management to see if the drives just have no drive letters assigned (its in storage -- drive management)

also try entering the BIOS setting when booting up the computer to make sure that the Drives are actually connected

Boid