[AccidentalClick]

A while ago (I'd say early summer-ish), I could use/burn CD's and DVD's. However, when I just put in a CD, it wouldn't read it. I tried other ones and DVDs and none of them worked. I check Windows Media Player and it said I needed a CD drive, which I'm sure I had before. Since this is the first time in a while that I've used a disk, I don't know how long this has been going on for. Any help?

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One of these may help:
1. Uninstall the drive through Device Manager.
Restart computer. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.
or...
2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Restart computer.
or...
3. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on cdgone.zip to unzip it.
Right click on cdgone.reg, click Merge.
Accept registry merge.
Restart computer.
or...
4. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstall. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.

[Broni]

One of these may help:
1. Uninstall the drive through Device Manager.
Restart computer. The drive will be automatically reinstalled.
or...
2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
Restart computer.
or...
3. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on cdgone.zip to unzip it.
Right click on cdgone.reg, click Merge.
Accept registry merge.
Restart computer.
or...
4. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstall. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.

[AccidentalClick]

Thanks for the help. I got my CD drive back.

[Broni]

Super!
Which solution helped?

[AccidentalClick]

Number 3 did.

[Broni]

Thanks

[nigeli]

+1 for the thx's

Option 2 did it for me

for reference I have a dual boot xp/win 7 set up. The dvd drives went missing from the win 7 set up and were optiarc dvd rw AD-7173a (pata) and a optiarc dvd AD 7200s (sata)

[Broni]

Nice