Undetected CD-ROM

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Gosia

My friend's computer doesn't recognize CD-ROM anymore. I don't know
when it happened (meaning, if/when/what he downloaded or not.)

There are no icons for CD-ROM drive in My Computer or Device Manager.
Deleting Upper and Lower Filters didn't work.
When Windows XP starts, it doesn't find a new hardware.
When I run add hardware manually, it doesn't find the drive either.
There are no error messages regarding CD-ROM (nor other errors for
that matter)
System restore didn't work.
System recovery wasn't set up.
Can't run a repair installation of Windows XP (no CD-Rom...)
The drive works properly on other computer.

The computer is:
IBM Thinkpad R32, Windows XP professional, no Floppy

I would appreciate any help or advice.
Gosia
 
thanks for the links but nothing works. Fixes didn't do anything,
neither help on Microsoft support pages.
And, the CD-Rom is working properly on other computer so it's not
dead.
I'm running out of ideas...
 
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