The drive makes the usual noise as if it is spinning when you put in a CD but nothing appears on the screen, it will not eject unless I stick the paper clip in the little hole. It was working when I installed the XP disk.  I often had a problem with this drive not seating well and had to take it out a few times and reseat it but that usually worked, now it doesn't.  Thanks for your help.


---- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 6:02:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] won't recognize cd drive

Does the drive operate when you push the eject button?
What happens when you put a CD in?
It's not unusual for these drives to die.

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Glenn Schrieber
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> 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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