cd-rw drive not recognized

[ds]

Just got a new computer (Gateway) with Windows XP
Professional. I began noticing some spurious cd-rw drive
activity (ie., disk in and writing lights came on with no
disk in drive). Then noticed that the cd-rw drive(E
drive) wasn't being recognized (didn't show up in windows
explorer or device manager). Did a restart and it
reappeared. Now it's not showing up again after start-up.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Well call gateway or take it back, since it's brand new have them
test it out again and make sure it's working.

Alvin


ds wrote:

> Just got a new computer (Gateway) with Windows XP
> Professional. I began noticing some spurious cd-rw drive
> activity (ie., disk in and writing lights came on with no
> disk in drive). Then noticed that the cd-rw drive(E
> drive) wasn't being recognized (didn't show up in windows
> explorer or device manager). Did a restart and it
> reappeared. Now it's not showing up again after start-up.
> Any ideas or help would be appreciated.