I have been using xp for awhile and now my cdrw & dvd
drives are not showing under my computer. Device manager
shows an ! next to the drive names. I already tried to
unstall and reinstall the cd drives. Since I can not use
the cd drive I can not use the XP setup to fix problem.
unless I log on under win 2000 (I have both installed) or
use an old win 98 start-up disk. Can I reinstall XP on
top of the previous installation? Do I need to start
over with a clean install of XP? If I just lost a window
driver can I download another one.

Thanks

Tried the old SYSTEM RESTORE?
>-----Original Message-----
>I have been using xp for awhile and now my cdrw & dvd
>drives are not showing under my computer. Device
manager
>shows an ! next to the drive names. I already tried to
>unstall and reinstall the cd drives. Since I can not
use
>the cd drive I can not use the XP setup to fix problem.
>unless I log on under win 2000 (I have both installed)
or
>use an old win 98 start-up disk. Can I reinstall XP on
>top of the previous installation? Do I need to start
>over with a clean install of XP? If I just lost a
window
>driver can I download another one.
>
>Thanks
>.
>

Ed wrote:

>I have been using xp for awhile and now my cdrw & dvd
>drives are not showing under my computer. Device manager
>shows an ! next to the drive names. I already tried to
>unstall and reinstall the cd drives.

To tidy up, get a registry patch file, cdgone.reg, from
www.aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip, extract it, r-click on it and merge
it into the registry

You will then need to reinstall any burning software that you use.


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (E-Mail Removed)