Cd Rom Missing!!!

>-----Original Message-----
>I was about quarter of the way the through compressing
my windows xp drive
>and seeing it would take ages, i just stopped it....
>But then, my cd rom drive had completly dissapeared!!!
>I tried system restore, but it is still missing!!
>Please Help...
>From Ben
>
>
>.
>Ben, I had trouble with my CD rom drive disappearing. I
had to take it back to the store. Turns out the physical
cd-rom drive died and I had to get it replaced.
I was told that most cd-rom drives are good for about 1
year :(

Good luck.
Lisa