Lost CD and DVD Drives

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Sam

I am using Win XP and have lost my CD and DVD drives. They are not in
explorer or the device manager. I have tried the small applications on
the net and mentioned on this bulletin board that are supposed to find
your DVD, but no luck. Every time I reboot there are not other
problems, just my drives are missing.

I am not sure if its related, but I also received an error when I
booted up that said my second hard drive was missing (I do not have
one). I changed this setting in the bios to "off" from "auto".

Any help?
 
In the BIOS, a drive can be either a hard drive or an optical drive.... so I
suggest you set everything back to Auto.... once the BIOS has found the
drives, they should appear back in Device Manager.
 
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