Missing CD and DVD drives

[Joel]

in the past 3 months, both my dvd and cd rewriter drives
have vanished off my computer, telling me that there is
no drives connected. What is going on??????, please help

cheers

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Try this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553

Also, make sure it appears in the BIOS and you have them snugly
connected internally.