Right-click on the My Computer icon and choose "properties". From there, navigate to Device Manager and see if the CD is listed there. If it is, does it have a yellow "!" or red X next to it?

Were you making any changes to the system just prior to the drive's disappearance (think carefully)?

Is your CD-ROM even being recognized by the system at all? Check your CMOS setup (which can usually be entered into "before" Windows starts booting) - in most cases, the IDE device 0 in your system should be your hard drive (which of course is working), and the IDE device 1 in your system ought to be your CD-ROM drive. If your CMOS does not recognize your CD-ROM drive, it will say something to the affect of "not installed" or "not present" or "none".

It could be as simple as a loose cable, or just a CD-ROM drive that has gone bad.

i got the same problem i reformated my computer and i got a new cd drive it wont detect it for some reason but when i was reformating it detected it but now it doesn't and i tried to install the cd drive into my computer with a floppy disk but it does not work for some reason

phatbacky,

We do ask that members start their own threads when they have problems, regardless of how similar a problem in an existing thread might seem. It becomes very difficult to keep track of whose responses are directed toward whose questions otherwise.

Please start a new thread of your own, and when you do, please include as much information as possible:

-Your version of Windows
-The make/model of CD drive
-The name and version # of the CD-ROM's driver which you are trying to install (and where you got the driver).
- The exact text of any error messages you may have gotten.

anetry,

I've split our posts into a separate thread for you. You can find your new thread here.

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