I found the device manager and both drives do not show. It looks like John is correct. They must be disconnected. Inge -----Original Message----- From: pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of PcCowboy Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:14 AM To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pchelpers] Re: S.O.S. I lost my CD ROM drive and my DVD drive Did you check your "Device manager" to see if maybe you have a big yellow ! next to one of your IDE ports. If you do you can click on it's properties and there should be a message why its not working. Pc -- -------list-services-below----------- Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.