If you right click on my computer, select properties and select the hardware
tab.
Select the Device Manager button and look at the DVD/CD-Rom drives.
How many DVD/CD drives do you physically have i the tower case?
You should have the same ammount of drives in device manager.
Do you have a yellow exclamation mark against the DVD/CD drive?
if so the drive is not installed correctly. try uninstalling the DVD/CD
click the drive to select it and select uninstall from the menu (Monitor
with an X through it)
Reboot you system and see if it re-enables itself.
Another thing to try is see if the drive works in dos, start the system
using a windows 98se boot floppy disk, see if the drive has been detected
and is operating. If you dont have a bootdisk, download this utilty to
create one. http://www.mbhs.edu/~jaosborn/boot98se.exe
if your system will not boot from a floppy disk you will have to set the 1st
boot device in bios to boot from floppy.
if you are not sure how to do that see here.
http://www.infopeople.org/resources/...tion/bios.html
If you dont get or have not got a drive being detected you may have a loose
cable in the case. Open the case carefully and check for loose cables on the
DVD/CD drive, there should be 1 power and 1 IDE cable connecting to the
motherboard.
Do you have a light on the front of the DVD/CD?
if not you may have a faulty DVD/CD drive, in which case it would need
replacing. Quite an easy task but please be careful.
A good site to look at for instructions is here
http://www.fonerbooks.com/r_cd.htm

Post back with details of how you get on,

--
Regards

John

MCP Windows XP Professional


"eroina" <eroina@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BBA72F70-6B4C-4214-8B1A-18C5023BB8B8@microsoft.com...
> John, In "my computer" only my harddrives and 3 1/2 floppy disk drives are
> shown. For some reason, no cd drive. Also, i tried the screwdriver thing;
> still no luck. Thanks though, eroina
>
>
> "John" wrote:
>
>> In my computer, right click on the troublesome cd drive and select eject.
>> or
>> get a very small screwdriver "carefull here" and insert it into the small
>> hole at the front of the cd, dont worry it is an emergency opening
>> method. Push inwards "Carefully" and the cd drawer will open.
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>>
>> John
>>
>> MCP Windows XP Professional
>>
>>
>> "eroina" <eroina@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E9447DDA-CBD7-4B56-9126-74B87BBD8188@microsoft.com...
>> >A few days ago, i inserted my new evanescence cd into the disk drive.
>> >Not
>> > knowing that this "cd" is actually more of a dvd, its now stuck. My cd
>> > rom
>> > won't open...the button on the CPU wont work...do i have any
>> > alternatives?
>> > i
>> > dont care about the cd, but i dont want to wreck my computer...my
>> > sister
>> > is
>> > gonna freak when she finds out! please help!
>>
>>
>>