what can cause an CDROM not appearing

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I got a 52x CD on my winxp PC. I can not find nay indication of its
presence in explorer no disk manager.
It does responds to tray open and close when the physical button is pressed
I check the IDE cable connection. It looked OK
I tried scan for hardware. nothing new found.

What else should I look for?
 
Restore Missing CD Drive
http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip

Ref: http://aumha.org/regfiles.php

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| I got a 52x CD on my winxp PC. I can not find nay indication of its
| presence in explorer no disk manager.
| It does responds to tray open and close when the physical button is pressed
| I check the IDE cable connection. It looked OK
| I tried scan for hardware. nothing new found.
|
| What else should I look for?
 
thanks for the prompt reply.


I just rebooted and found out the bios did not even find the CD. so I doubt
if the zip file will help
 
Then try reseating the cabling (both power and data). Otherwise, the drive
may have failed (do you see a power indicator light at all?).

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Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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