Hi.

I put a disc in my drive, autoplay didn't come up, so I clicked My Computer
as usual to activate it myself, and found that both my drives were missing.
No icon, nothing. I tried the disc in the other drive, same deal. I tried
typing D: and E: into Run but was given the error message that they are "not
available." I tried searching the problem on google and all I got was
something linking the problem to CD-writing software, which I do not have.

I assume it's linked to one of these: yesterday, I installed some RAM, a 1GB
stick. Aside from that, everything's going smoothly. I also downloaded a
driver update for my graphics card. Again, never received any error message
from either of these, or at all.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

w.p. mayhew wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I put a disc in my drive, autoplay didn't come up, so I clicked My Computer
> as usual to activate it myself, and found that both my drives were missing.
> No icon, nothing. I tried the disc in the other drive, same deal. I tried
> typing D: and E: into Run but was given the error message that they are "not
> available." I tried searching the problem on google and all I got was
> something linking the problem to CD-writing software, which I do not have.
>
> I assume it's linked to one of these: yesterday, I installed some RAM, a 1GB
> stick. Aside from that, everything's going smoothly. I also downloaded a
> driver update for my graphics card. Again, never received any error message
> from either of these, or at all.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
Check your BIOS settings first to be sure it knows that drives are present.
Good Luck

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w.p. mayhew wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I put a disc in my drive, autoplay didn't come up, so I clicked My Computer
> as usual to activate it myself, and found that both my drives were missing.
> No icon, nothing. I tried the disc in the other drive, same deal. I tried
> typing D: and E: into Run but was given the error message that they are "not
> available." I tried searching the problem on google and all I got was
> something linking the problem to CD-writing software, which I do not have.
>
> I assume it's linked to one of these: yesterday, I installed some RAM, a 1GB
> stick. Aside from that, everything's going smoothly. I also downloaded a
> driver update for my graphics card. Again, never received any error message
> from either of these, or at all.
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.

It is very easy to bump cables when you have the case open. Since you
installed a RAM stick, I'd open the case and reseat the cables (signal
and power) to those optical drives.
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Cheers, Bob