CD/DVD Drives No Longer Recognized

[Jayride]

OK, here's the deal...
My PC stopped showing the ROM drives recently. Nothing has been changed and the slave/master is normal. All info in the bios is still as it should be, but I'm not showing the normal drive letters in 'My Computer'. I still see the 'C Drive' of course, and the folders. When I pop a CD into the drive, it spins, but the system doesn't recognize that new data has been entered.
All I can guess is that the drivers have somehow been removed, but I'm having trouble getting those back on. So back to basics. Either 1. I still have the wrong answer, or 2. Can someone direct me on how to install generic CD/DVD Rom drivers in a Windows XP environment?
- Jay

[Raccoon]

Did you try uninstalling the drives and rebooting? If that dosent work, try uninstalling the IDE controllers after uninstalling the drives. Reboot to let Windows re detect and re-install everything.

[smile]

I suggest you to re-install Windows.

[kapsicum]

no need for reinstalling windows ... do as Raccoon says

[Extreme Gamer]

i have the same problem,but its an oem sata version of the lg hl-dt-st gh20ns10,but your methods didnt work.i downloaded the drivers manually but driver cant find target drive