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Solve : CD/DVD burner isn't showing up anymore?

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The CD/DVD burner was working until I was trying to burn songs from itunes and the computer froze and the burner wasn't working.  Then I tried to save some jpeg files and there is nothing there to save them to the hardrive.  It's like it isn't there anymore and I don't know what happened, why or where it has gone.  Please help! Quote

Then I tried to save some jpeg files and there is nothing there to save them to the hardrive.  


You are going to have to be more specific.Well I think you must be simple and specific. Try to mention more detail about your computer, software you are using for burning CDs and about your CD/DVD burner. Are you SURE that you have DVD burner?
Bye...ee....I right clicked on my computer in the start menu and WENT to properties which brought me to hardware and device manager.  It says DVD/CD-ROM drives there are two exclamation POINTS at NEC DVD+RW ND-1100A and SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148C.  I was told I should uninstall these things and restart the computer.  I have windows XP and that it should recognize this and automatically REINSTALL the drives.  But it didn't work.  The exclamation points were there before I unistalled them and are still there.  Yes I do have a burner I have used it many times and it has worked until now.
     What error code is given?This is what I get.

Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

The drives aren't showing up in the removable drive devices either.  I don't know what happened.Be certain they are enabled in the BIOS.After you check the BIOS, MAKE sure to uninstall and reinstall your software you are using.  Had a similar problem with my laptop, but I removed the program I was using, and actually installed a newer version and it worked perfectly.

Also check for any BIOS updates that might have been released


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