All of a suddent my CD and DVD drives stopped showing. When I boot, the
lightsd on both drives blink so there is powere. It, of course. will not
read any CDs. I replaced the ribbon cable and problem persists.
What's interesting is that I can use the Drive to boot and get into BIOS.
When I do that i see the drives on the BIOS.

What on earth is going on?

Dunga wrote:

> All of a suddent my CD and DVD drives stopped showing. When I boot,
> the
> lightsd on both drives blink so there is powere. It, of course. will
> not
> read any CDs. I replaced the ribbon cable and problem persists.
> What's interesting is that I can use the Drive to boot and get into
> BIOS. When I do that i see the drives on the BIOS.
>
> What on earth is going on?

See if any of these links help:

CD-ROM Drive or DVD-ROM Drive Missing After You Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/search/...;en-us;Q320553

CD-ROM Access Is Missing and Messages Cite Error Code 31, Code 32,
Code 19, or Code 39 After You Remove Easy CD Creator in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314060

CD-ROM Access is Missing after removing Easy CD Creator - CD-ROM Access
Is Missing and Messages Cite Error Code 31, Code 32, Code 19, or Code
39 After You Remove Easy CD Creator in Windows XP -
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314060

MVP Doug Knox also has a little utility for fixing disappearing optical
drives:
http://www.aumha.org/regfiles.htm - for cdgone

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

I run windows xp with service pack 2 , 2002 verison. one day I have cd/dvd rom
drive "E". The next day I do not. CD-rom does not even show on the device
manager. If you find a solution let us know.
--
thomas


"Dunga" wrote:

> All of a suddent my CD and DVD drives stopped showing. When I boot, the
> lightsd on both drives blink so there is powere. It, of course. will not
> read any CDs. I replaced the ribbon cable and problem persists.
> What's interesting is that I can use the Drive to boot and get into BIOS.
> When I do that i see the drives on the BIOS.
>
> What on earth is going on?