CD-ROM not recognized

My CD-ROM is not being recognized in My Computer, and CDs won't load.
Device Manager says the drive is functioning normally, the drivers are the
latest and not corrupted.
(I've already looked at the previous threads on this subject, tried many of
the solutions even using the Guided Help software, but still no luck).
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

On 2008-09-10, KevinDR hit the keyboard and wrote:

> My CD-ROM is not being recognized in My Computer, and CDs won't load.
> Device Manager says the drive is functioning normally, the drivers are the
> latest and not corrupted.
> (I've already looked at the previous threads on this subject, tried many of
> the solutions even using the Guided Help software, but still no luck).
> Any suggestions?

My first attempt to rule out *hardware* failure is to change
the *boot-order* in the BIOS (If it's not set already so) to
boot from CD-ROM. Then stick in a Live-CD into the unit and
boot the PC. If the Live-CD comes up OK then there is no
Problem with the Drive itself.

Have you tried this?

> Thanks.



Dragomir Kollaric
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people will be disappointed to find they are not it."
>> Bernard Baily <<

Any Error messages??? Meanwhile see the below MS -KB and follow the fix
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314060
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"KevinDR" <KevinDR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E5886F94-6A0F-4E19-ACF5-C21553DA9DFD@microsoft.com...
> My CD-ROM is not being recognized in My Computer, and CDs won't load.
> Device Manager says the drive is functioning normally, the drivers are the
> latest and not corrupted.
> (I've already looked at the previous threads on this subject, tried many of
> the solutions even using the Guided Help software, but still no luck).
> Any suggestions?
> Thanks.