Disappeared DVD Drive and Hard Drive

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Running Win XP Home.
I had a second hard drive installed internally that was designated as E
drive and this suddenly "disappeared" from My Computer and Device Manager
Hardware. I assumed this hard drive crashed/malfunctioned. Now recently I
have also noticed that my CD/DVD drive that was D drive has also disappeared
in my Computer and Device Manager. I find this unusal now that both have
gone. I checked event log and it shows on Aug 23 that both the E and DVD
"disappeared from system" and there are numbers behind entry with ( ). I
know I lost the E drive prior to Aug 23. How can I tell what date it
actually happened, and then if I "restore" would this possibly get everything
back? Any other suggestions would be appreciated. My computer is not even 2
years old.
 
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Shenan Stanley

lindon said:
Running Win XP Home.
I had a second hard drive installed internally that was designated
as E drive and this suddenly "disappeared" from My Computer and
Device Manager Hardware. I assumed this hard drive
crashed/malfunctioned. Now recently I have also noticed that my
CD/DVD drive that was D drive has also disappeared in my Computer
and Device Manager. I find this unusal now that both have gone. I
checked event log and it shows on Aug 23 that both the E and DVD
"disappeared from system" and there are numbers behind entry with (
). I know I lost the E drive prior to Aug 23. How can I tell what
date it actually happened, and then if I "restore" would this
possibly get everything back? Any other suggestions would be
appreciated. My computer is not even 2 years old.
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Are they shown in the system bios?
 

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