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October 14th, 2009 19:00

help needed - e: drive disappeared

I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 running Windows Vista.

 

About a month ago my DVD R/W drive (compact disk rewritable Ultra Speed) stopped showing up under "My Computer", the device manager only shows 1 drive (ST980811AS ATA Device).

 

I can no longer play CDs/DVDs.

 

Does anyone have any tips on how to troubleshoot?

 

Regards,

 

Laura

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October 19th, 2009 13:00

Rebooting will sometime help.  I had all the usb, card readers disappear and it was a bad motherboard.  Connections would work when PC was cool, but as soo as it warmed up, they stopped working.  Leaving the cover off helped for 6 months till they stopped again.  Replacement motherboard was more than new PC.

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