I borrowed this from a recent post by Wesley Vogel. He stated it so
well, I don't think anyone could have done a better job:
Restore Missing CD Drive
http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip
[[The popular CDGONE patch. CD drives may vanish in Windows Explorer, Device
Manager, etc. if a third-party CD-burning package has been uninstalled and
Registry references for some code modules aren’t removed successfully. This
patch and a reboot usually will restore the missing drives. Any third
party package still required will then have to be re-installed. ]]
http://aumha.org/reg3.htm
[[For more information on this and other possible causes, see the “Problemsâ€
section of Alex Nichol’s Burning CDs in Windows XP article.]]
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
Restore CD/DVD Drives to Explorer
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_cd_dvd_fix.htm
Burning CDs in Windows XP
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm
CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive appears to be missing after you install
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553
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Nathan McNulty
mrfatpockets wrote:
Here is the scenario… I recently bought 2 plextor drives (1: a CD-R/RW) (2: a DVD+R/RW DVD-R/RW) when I replaced my old drives the DVD (slave) is the only one that shows up in My Comp and the only one that works with cds. But both show up in the BIOS and in Device Manager. I have tried every configuration on the IDE cable and the only one that makes any drive show up is the DVD writer as a slave with another drive as the master. What is going on? I used the cdgone.reg patch and it didn’t work… btw.