CDRW does not work

[Hardy]

I have two CD RW installed on my computer and they do not
show up in the explorer. I can see them in the Device
Manager but none of them are working. I tried deleting the
devices and re-started the computer so that it would
recognize them and help, but that didn't work.

One of the CDRW came with my machine, its a Philips make,
model no. CDD4801/71. This CDRW was working fine. The
Driver files associated with this CDRW are shown as below
in the Driver details :
C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\CDROM.SYS
C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\REDBOOK.SYS
C:\WINNT\system32\STORPROP.DLL
version no. 5.00.2195.6655
Then I purchased another CDRW Pacific Digital Model CDR
5W48 and that installed by itself when I restarted my
machine. The problem started when I loaded the Nero CD
Burning software that came with it. Although now I have
uninstalled Nero both the CDRW's still don't work. So I am
not sure what caused the problem. Driver details :
C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\CDROM.SYS
C:\WINNT\system32\DRIVERS\REDBOOK.SYS
C:\WINNT\system32\STORPROP.DLL
version no. 5.00.2195.6655
I disconnected each of the CDRW's and then reconnected
them, when Windows 2000 OS started, it shows Disk 3 and 4
as CDROM's. However I am not able to see these in the
Explorer and also when I am inserting the CD, the drives
don't even autoplay.

Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks and Regards
Sonia Hardikar

 

[Verminator]

Assuming they are on the same ide channel; did you remember to
make one a master and the other a slave?

Regards,
TJG