Lost dvd drive

[Bearfuel]

I've just installed xp on my system, it was all working great until earlier this afternoon when xp fails to recognize my dvd player. It won't even show up in my win explorer. I watched a dvd movie.....it played fine. I then set up my windows update to
run. I have also installed other software since the windows update, and am not sure when the dvd drive dissappeared. My computer bios recognizes the dvd drive, but it won't show up in windows. Any solutions? Thanks

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

See if this helps:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

Under section 8 - Problems - there is a link to a patch that often resolves
this problem

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Bearfuel" > wrote in message
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> I've just installed xp on my system, it was all working great until
earlier this afternoon when xp fails to recognize my dvd player. It won't
even show up in my win explorer. I watched a dvd movie.....it played fine.
I then set up my windows update to run. I have also installed other
software since the windows update, and am not sure when the dvd drive
dissappeared. My computer bios recognizes the dvd drive, but it won't show
up in windows. Any solutions? Thanks