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Sporadic absence of CD drive
Hi all,
I have searched through the forums and cannot find an answer. I have a very old Dell Inpsiron laptop with a Panasonic cd-rw running windows xp pro. The issue is that this drive occassionally goes "missing". As in the drive itself will not show up in bios nor the device manager.
I have already made sure that the device has power and indeed does work as when I boot, I see the light flashing and a feeble attempt to read the disk.
When this has occurred I usually attempt to uninstall all software that deals with the ripping/burning/playing of my cds. The last combination that worked was uninstalling media monkey, reboot, re-installing itunes 8, reboot, uninstall itunes, reboot, reinstall media monkey, reboot.
My drive has since gone missing again and I cannot seem to find the magic combination to bring it back (not that I am sure why anything worked in the first place)
Can anyone tell me:
a) what is happening
b) how to get my cd drive back on a more stable basis
c) how to stop this from happening over and over again.
Thank-you
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