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If both your "dual boot" OS installations are the same version of 
Windows, and you have the installation CD, you might want to switch 
on the PC when that CD in the drive, in the hope that at least the 
BIOS can see it (some bioses defulat to no booting form CD, if that's 
true for yours, see if you can change that via the BIOS settings). 
Choose the "boot from CD" option when it comes up, and then choose to 
install some very minor OS application or utility that isn't already 
on the HD, using that great big tickbox menu. 
If you can do that, the OS setup program will /hopefully/ repair 
whatever was wrong with your OS bootup files on the HD at the same 
time, and the next time you autoboot into the OS, the CDROM /might/ 
magically be back again (it worked for me, anyway).
Sometimes those system files seem to get damaged when you have an 
abnormal shutdown, doing some very minor OS "install" thing can often 
put them back.


Standard warnings apply, do a system backup of everything before you 
start playing around like this ... running a disk integrity check 
doesn't hurt ... and check your cables in case one has worked a bit 
loose!

===NB:=== There are some serious issues concerned with dual-booting 
between two /different/ versions of Windows on the same hard drive. 
If that's what you are doing you probably need to give us some more 
details about how your system is set up, and be much more careful, 
because trying to reinstall or repair the "old" version in a dual 
boot setup can often completely destroy the "newer" OS and/or its 
files.

Erk
 

--- In logic-ot@y..., "litepipe" <litepipe@e...> wrote:
>           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.