Many, many thanks to Comodore for his assistance in this matter. GREAT JOB!!!!

I learned that somehow during my clean up process, IMAPI had been turned off. I went into my System Adminstration tools, turned it on, rebooted and the drives were back and working.

Interesting wrinkle. If I boot the computer with a CD / DVD in ONE of the drives, I can access it fine (just don't eject the media because it will not read one after that). If I boot the computer...

New thread started under Windows XP / NT / 2000.

My machine was running extremely slow and I followed the suggestions of The Comodore and the machine is running much, much faster. I have another problem now though. After running all of these...

Well, I have tried The Comodore's suggestions and the machine is running much, much faster. I have another problem now though. After running all of these utilities, my CD/DVD drives will no longer...

One other note. The hard drive seems to churn a whole lot. I have disabled Network Magic and it seems to have cured that somewhat (although for some reason it still shows on the HJT report). When I...

The motherboard is manufactured by PC Chips (Model M963GV) and it uses a 478 Socket.

BTW - I have run the Windows One Care online service and found a bunch of things in the registry (this was...

Thanks for the feedback. I have done many of the things you suggested but certainly not all so I'll tackle some of those online tools. Again, many thanks for taking the time to respond and I'm...

My computer has gotten significantly slower over the past 3 or 4 months. I have done a lot of work since Saturday and cleaned off a bunch of stuff (using a variety of tools), as well as replacing my...