I recently discovered my CD drives were not showing up.
The device manager says it cannot find hardware (code 41).
Yet if I delete the driver and re-boot windows it says it
has found new hardware and installs the device. Yet when I
goto device manager it again says it cannot find the
hardware and my drives do not report on "my computer".
Anyone have any ideas?

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> I recently discovered my CD drives were not showing up.
> The device manager says it cannot find hardware (code 41).
> Yet if I delete the driver and re-boot windows it says it
> has found new hardware and installs the device. Yet when I
> goto device manager it again says it cannot find the
> hardware and my drives do not report on "my computer".
> Anyone have any ideas?