My CD-Rom Drives Are Suddenly Missing Friday, June 13, 2003 at 6:13 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by James (1 messages posted) My CD-Rom drives are suddenly missing. My system is a Compaq Presario 5003US running WinMe; PIII/933mhz, 256mb Ram. Previously my OS was Win989SE with all updates, and roughly two weeks ago they disappeared but I was able to access them in DOS and upgrade the OS to ME. This fixed the problem temporarily. Then earlier this week it happened again. They're not showing up in Windows Explorer, nor Device Manager in "Normal" mode; however, in Safe Mode they show up in Device Manager. I've tried to restart my system with the Win98SE Start Disk in and possibly access them in DOS...but to no avail. Another item of note, my CD-Rom drive does not power-up, nor can I open the tray door without a paperclip. So I may possibly have a bad drive, but my CD-RW drive powers up as well as opens the tray door normally. This happened in the first episode also. I look forward to any suggestions offered. Peace, James Responses to this message: re: My CD-Rom Drives Are Suddenly Missing (don rua: Sunday, October 19, 2003 at 8:20 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] My CD-Rom Drives Are Suddenly Missing (James: Fri, Jun 13, 2003, 6:13 am) re: My CD-Rom Drives Are Suddenly Missing (don rua: Sun, Oct 19, 2003, 8:20 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum