They were working but now they don't even see any disk in the drive. I have tried many different disks in case one was bad but it says that there's no disk in the drive. They both open and the lights appear. I have restarted and shut down and started up again. I have changed the IDE cable joining them to the mother board and still the problem exists ... I have uninstalled both and let windows XP detect hardware and install them again and still they act as though no cd was in either drive . This is driving ( no pun intended [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] ) me nuts.

I have been searching google groups and found many simialr cases even back to windows 95 users but I haven't found any solutions.

Sorry for the off XaraX topic but this is a busy forum with any knowledgable comuter users and I hope maybe somebody here knows what this problem might be about

Windows XP home edition
Compaq SC-140S cd-rom drive
LG CD-RW CED8120B

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