lost my cd rom drive and burner

[Guest]

My computer got several viruses recently and now my cd rom drive and burner
drives are missing! Is there any way of getting them back?????
Please help.

 

[whitenight639]

what operating system do you have and what type of drives?
when ur computer boots up are they listed as installed?

 

[Guest]

i'm running xp professional. please bare with me, i'm not real comp.
literate so i don't know if i'm giving you the info you need but i have cd
-rw drive and a regular cd drive. i don't know if they are listed when i
boot up or not and im not at home to look yet. will that info be on the
screen as it's booting up?

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Restore CD/DVD Drives to Explorer
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_cd_dvd_fix.htm

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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