Just a couple of ideas -
Have you tried opening up the PC and checking the cables? Maybe a loose cable came undone.
If you are running Win ME or Xp and have system restore active, you can just roll back your system settings to an earlier time. Search on 'System Restore' in the Help application for more details. My CDR went wonky a while back, and I just rolled back the system a couple of days and it was fine after that.
Good luck!
- MCC
At 07:06 AM 4/15/2004 -0700, you wrote:
My computer no longer recognizes the CD reader/player or the CD burner drives. Checking the system it seems that the drivers for these drives have "disappeared," either by an inadvertent erasure, becoming corrupt, or damaged by the recent installation of a new program.
I don't know what the drivers are, so I can't find them on installation software and reload them.
Any thoughts to how this problem can be solved, other than to make a long trip to the computer repair shop?
I do have two other computers that can read CD's, so, if I knew what drivers to look for, I might be able to copy them to a transfer medium (like my camera's memory card) and upload them to the damaged computer through the card reader.
shel (feeling so "down under")
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