Open the case and check the ribbon and power cables to the CD drives.  It's not uncommon for them to become slightly loose then fail to make proper contact.

Also worth checking the BIOS.  The drives should either be shown as 'CDRom' or as 'Auto'.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Randy Keys 
  Subject: [PCBUILD] No optical drives


  Can anyone help- suddenly, with no apparent changes in software or
  hardware, my computer is no longer "seeing" either my DVD drive or my
  CD-RW.

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