CD-RW failure

[maxpowersth]

now im sure this could partially be my fault, in fact, im quite sure
but i figure you guys are the ones to ask... i have a dell 4600c
with a panasonic (matshita) UJDA360 slim 24x cdrw.. one day i
stopped burning cds, for whatever reason, so i went for a firmwar
upgrade, and it still wasnt working,.. well, when trying to correc
the problem, i removed easy cd creator 5, along with the drivers fo
the cdrw. well, now, for some reason the drive itself does not eve
come up in "my computer" i cant run d:\ or anything . i dont kno
how it would just disappear, even if i just wanted to use it as
rom, a should be able to right? anyone that can help my compute
re-recognize my drive it would be much appreciated. thank you i
advanc

-ton

i suck

 

[EasyFeelings]

have you considered that the drive might just be dead and need replaced?



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[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Is it recognized in the BIOS?

You might want to see Alex Nichol's explanation and fix for the disappearing
optical drive problem at:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems

 

[Ross Moody]

Have you tried to disable or uninstall in device manager. Then reboot and
see if windows will recognize and reinstall it. If that doesn't work it is
probably a dead soldier.
Ross