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Where's my CD-Drive gone?

All of a sudden my cd drive has disappeared on my pc. The little drawer opens and closes happily but when I try to troubleshoot it I'm told there's an error code 41. Anybody have any idea what's happened and how to get it back again???

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  • Allexie
    Allexie Posts: 3,460 Forumite
    That happened to me once...found out eventually that I had somehow 'lost' the drivers. Rolling back the drivers solved it for me.
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  • Allexie, I've tried that - no go.
  • Allexie
    Allexie Posts: 3,460 Forumite
    DOH ::) ::) >:( >:( ::) ::)
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  • sra
    sra Posts: 4,676 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Photogenic
    My cd drive sometimes goes missing if I leave a disc in it when I restart

    I think what happens is that when it restarts it looks for a boot disc and when if finds the disc in the drawer is not a boot disc it decides to ignore it - but sometimes it gets mixed up and decides to ignore the whole drive.
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