XP Home cannot find cd Drive

[bantamman]

I have XP Home Evesham Laptop and i believe a Sony cd drive ( i can no longer
find any reference to it in my laptop). This drive is not being recognised
and thus cannot use any cd/dvd. I used the fix for cd drive when cd burning
is removed as I had recently uninstalled Itunes and although this worked for
2 days it has now disappeared again and the fix is no longer working when i
try it again.

 

[Brian A.]

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[Brian A.]

I have XP Home Evesham Laptop and i believe a Sony cd drive ( i can no longer
find any reference to it in my laptop). This drive is not being recognised
and thus cannot use any cd/dvd. I used the fix for cd drive when cd burning
is removed as I had recently uninstalled Itunes and although this worked for
2 days it has now disappeared again and the fix is no longer working when i
try it again.

What fix did you try?
Does the CD drive show in Computer Management?
Right click MyComputer on the desktop.
Click "Manage" in the popup menu.
Expand the Computer Management window.
Click "disk Management.

If the CD drive does not show in CM, is it detected in the BIOS?


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How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[bantamman]

I do not how to find the cd drive in bios can you expand on how i do this. I
cannot find in Computer management.

Also i cannot find the KB that i used for the CD burner fix right now

 

[bantamman]

I do not how to find the cd drive in bios can you expand on how i do this as I
cannot find in Computer management.

the KB i used was http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us

 

[Brian A.]

When you boot the machine there will be a certain key or combo of keys you press on
the keyboard to enter the BIOS (Setup). The common keys are F1, F2 or DEL. If one
of those do not work please provide the Make/Model of you machine.

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[bantamman]

It is not in bios from what i can see when i went into bios

My system is Evesham and i think it is a voyager c420 but not sure on that

the specs according to system properties is Microsoft Windows XP Media
Center Edition version 2002 service pack 2. AMD Turion 64 mobile795 MHz
1.00GB RAM.

 

[Brian A.]

If the BIOS doesn't show/see the CD drive, then the BIOS is not detecting it and
Windows will never see it. Either the drive went south or a power/data cable came
loose.

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