Any ideas? My cdrw is gone.
 

Ok, I'm hoping someone may have a clue for the clueless( me). My cd drive has vanished from my computer. It won't recognize it at all. I'm running win 2K.on an old HP pavillion. When I go to my computer to look at the drives its no longer listed, and I can't play anything from that drive or burn to it.

When I go to setup it is still showing there and the lights come on when I boot up. I tried unplugging and rebooting numerous times to no avail. Any suggestions from techies would be appreciated. I guess I could do a complete op system reinstall, but am trying to avoid that if possible.

try uninstalling the drive and then it should recognize it when you reboot.
Settings>Control Panel>Add Remove Hardware

Hey, thanks. I was able to get it to uninstall although it had the little exclamation mark on it indicating a problem. When I rebooted it didn't install so I went through the add hardware wizard and got this message.
It has been working fine untill it vanished. It is a sony drive I added about a year ago. I can't understand why the driver would be a problem now.

re-install the drivers (and look for new drivers on the internet)

Update. I found this in the help pages but can't determine what might be the associated device.

i once had a cdrw that acted up.

i flashed the bios and the problem was solve (updated it actually)


so, look for a flasher for the ram.

Try this: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=106

rubicon.... you da man..* bows down*... that did it. I owe you my firstborn. Saved me a ton of work. I would have been reinstalling the operating system.

Glad I could help.