Both my standard CD drive and my CD/RW drive have stopped working. When I insert a CD in either drive, the computer does not recognise that there is anything there. I am running XP and up until now both drives have worked properly. The computer recognises that both are there and says they are working properly. Can anyone help me? Thanks

Hi rudizarsov, welcome to SAF

There MUST something happened just before they stop working... it may be a hardware problem, or you may be infected by some malware or virus.

Please report any unusual or abnormal facts on last days, as we can suggest something.

Take a look at your BIOS setup and report if they are listed there.

Chris

Welcome to SAF!

Have you made any other hardware or software changes before this started? If so, give some details. If not:

You said your computer sees them, so I assume you are seeing them listed on startup. If not, go into Device Manager and delete both drives. Restart the system. Windows should detect and reinstall them.

If not, post back.

Actually, I'm having the same problem (P4 w/XP Pro). My Lite-On CDRW and Kenwood 72x CD-ROM drives were working just fine until I stupidly installed a Pioneer DVDRW drive and created a conflict. Nothing was recognized in explore, although they were all there in device mgr. I removed the Pioneer but the other two remained unrecognized. I deleted both in Device Mgr., rebooted, but can't get the drivers to be accepted (they're in a folder in C: drive, since I can't use an install CD -- No Drive to use. XP doesn't use the generic CD-ROM DOS driver floppy. I'm stuck!! Any thoughts???