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>           I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm having a problem on my
> internet p.c. where my p.c. won't recognize my c.d. rom anymore.  I
> had a dual boot system and for some reason over the past week things
> have been getting weird on my sysytem and all of a sudden I can't open
> windows explorer and look at the contents of a c.d. I looked in the
> device manager and it says the device is working fine.  The weird
> thing was I have an external cdrw drive hooked up and it won't
> recognize that either. I tried uninstalling software and nothing seems
> to help . I tried formating one of the partitions and starting over
> but even then the cd rom won't be recognized. I use the startup
> floppy, load the drivers for the cd rom and when it's time to type
> setup it can't find the c.d.  Can anyone help me please? Some advice?
> I'm desperate....Thanks!!


Greetings

What version of Windows?

In addition to what Murray suggested here are a few things to try.

1) Go into the Device Manager and *delete* the CD-Rom. Reboot. Windows
should recognize it again and set it up again automatically. Hopefully
that will fix your problem right off.

2) If Windows doesn't recognize it and set it up again.. You might have to
do some fishing around in the BIOS. When your computer boots up it should
give a list (that will disappear quickly:-() of what devices it found
connected. E.g. hard drives and CD-ROMs... Is it showing up in the list?
Do you know where it's plugged in for sure, e.g. cable 1 or 2, (or maybe 3
or 4 if you have IDE RAID built into the motherboard) and master or slave?
You might have to reboot a few times to practice staring at the right spot
on the screen to see the information flash by, but try to see if its being
recognized in the BIOS. One way that might make it easier is if you go
into the BIOS setup (usually by hitting Delete when the computer is
booting)... Go to the tab that shows the Boot Devices.. is the CD-ROM
drive shown in the list anywhere? If not make sure its plugged in properly
and has power (can you eject the CD tray etc?).. There might be a problem
with the CD-ROM drive itself if it's not showing up even at the BIOS
level. 

There are a few things to keep ya busy for a bit ;-)

Jeremy
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