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Old January 15th 05, 04:35 PM
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/Mairsboytoy2/ said:

My cd drive just disappeared. Tried a system restore, uninstalled and
reinstalled all my drivers, with no success. Can't even use restore cd's that
came with computer. Any ideas?


MS Knowledge Base, which you can reach from the link below.
Search for your topic; lots of ideas there.

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Old January 15th 05, 06:31 PM
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My cd drive just disappeared. Tried a system restore, uninstalled and
reinstalled all my drivers, with no success. Can't even use restore cd's that
came with computer. Any ideas?
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Old January 16th 05, 08:37 PM
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Default My cd-rom drive disappeared.

See Alex Nichol's fix for the disappearing Optical Drive:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
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My cd drive just disappeared. Tried a system restore, uninstalled and
reinstalled all my drivers, with no success. Can't even use restore cd's
that
came with computer. Any ideas?




 




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