My CD Drives have vanished!

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Kat

Hello all, hope you can help me. My CD and DVD drives
have vanished! I'm sure it's all my fault but anyway. In
the device manager there are exclamation icons next to
both drives confirming the drive status as having a
missing or corrupted driver. (They are still present in
BIOS and fully functional) Have unplugged both drives
from the MB, re-booted without them and re-booted again
with them connected. Same problem. System restore
doesn't work either. Should I re-install XP again? Will I
lose all of my work by doing this? Or is there another
way. Please show me the light!
Thanks, Kat
 
Boot into Safe Mode, open Device Manager, remove both devices, reboot and
let Windows find the drivers.
 

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