Lost all CD rw / dvd rw drives

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mattprice

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I am completely stumped.
Following an unintentional power off ihave lost all mention of my internal cd/dvd drives.
On bootup bios sees them and once booted up Device manager sees them but with a yellow exclamation mark next to them. DM says that the drivers are
corrupted or missing. I was using the windows drivers that came with XP Pro.
Because the PC won't recognise the drives I can't use my XP disc to do a repair. I have tried an external USB drive and this appears in exaclty the same way as the other drives.
The ide connections internally are all solid and remade

Does anybody have any ideas

Matt Price
 
Try this....

Go into device manager, and uninstall the devices. Then restart and the original drivers should reinstall themselves.

JAN :D
 
Done all that several times.
Have just attached a USB 2 harddrive which XP says it has installed and appears correctly in DM but My Computer does not see it ?
 
Did you install the drivers from the xp disk, or the actual driver for the devices, like from the manufactures website? Anyway, if they show up in device manager, check the driver properties, make sure it says the device is working, and that it is enabled. Than check back in my computer, if you dont see it, right click and refresh. You could try going to windows explorer and see if you can see the devices.
 
Done all that as well. Original drivers were from Xp disc and have also downloaded up to date drivers from manufacturers website and still no luck.
which is why I am completely stumped
 
So, in fact, your hardare is still working though correct, just not showing up? example, if you put in a dvd, it should read it. You should be able to access you drives through dos, or while in windows, use the command prompt, and see if that works. This would at least tell you you can access them.

Let me know if this works.
 
Unfortunately that is not the case. DM sees the drives but has exclamation marks next to them and also says that drivers can not be loaded as they are corrupted or missing
 
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