Ron
December 9th 03, 12:15 PM
Did you check in bios to see if the cdrw is recognized
there? There's always the chance that the drive went belly-
up. The only way to check this is to install it in another
comp & see if it works.
>-----Original Message-----
> Hey, I have a compaq presario 7470. Anyway for some
>reason my computer isn't recognizing my cd-rw drive. I've
>had this computer for quite awhile now and never have had
>problems. I went to open the cd drive the other day and
>found it was unresponsive. I opened my computer to find
>that there was no (d:) drive (my cd-rw drive) installed
>on my computer. I tried a system restore and made sure
>that it was connected properly, but still have had no
>success. Any ideas???
>.
>
there? There's always the chance that the drive went belly-
up. The only way to check this is to install it in another
comp & see if it works.
>-----Original Message-----
> Hey, I have a compaq presario 7470. Anyway for some
>reason my computer isn't recognizing my cd-rw drive. I've
>had this computer for quite awhile now and never have had
>problems. I went to open the cd drive the other day and
>found it was unresponsive. I opened my computer to find
>that there was no (d:) drive (my cd-rw drive) installed
>on my computer. I tried a system restore and made sure
>that it was connected properly, but still have had no
>success. Any ideas???
>.
>