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    Jan 16, 2006, 02:53 AM
    I've lost my cd-rom drive
    We had a power loss (surge?) this am (chimputer was on w/surge protector), upon power restoration, I rebooted comp and neither of my dvd/cd drives are being found. When looking in the device mngr there is a little ! Next to the drives. I tried reinstalling the drivers but it did not help:confused. The drivers are installed but device is not found. Also the drive ID i.e. E: and F: are no longer present on the my computer page. Drives are listed in bios as well. I even tried unplugging and replugging... next will sacrifice a chicken to the Gods. Any ideas how to fix this broken relationship?:confused:
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    Jan 16, 2006, 07:03 AM
    What version of Windows? Were the drive preinstalled or did you add them yourself?
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    Jan 16, 2006, 09:02 AM
    Xp home and the drivers were pre installed
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    Jan 16, 2006, 02:35 PM
    Try removing the drives in Device Manager, then rebooting and let XP redetect them.
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