Hi, I am new to the post but have a question about a dell latitude laptop.  It is rather old but is running Win XP and required a format secondary to a virus I couldn't eliminate.  I re-installed XP and all was well until I tried to use the CD drive, it doesn't read any CD I try.  Under My Computer it only lists the hard drive, no external drive nor is it listed  in Device Manager.  I looked in the Bios and it has "not installed" under other drives, when I try to highlight this line to try to install the drive, it  skips over it and goes back to the top.  Could a virus have caused some changes like this in the bios?  How do I get this drive to work again?  Obviously it worked once because  I  re-installed my XP.  I took the drive out and put it back in b ut no "new harware found" message and it still didn't work.  Thanks for any and all suggestions. 

  Kathryn 

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