I recently REMOVED a video card from my system because it was bad. My mobo has an onboard display adapter. When I booted up windows will not show my DVD or my CD writer. All my hardware shows up on the POST and in BIOS. I have tried replacing the ribbon cables and checking the CONNECTIONS. Please help....untill I resolve this issue I cannot install my graphics drivers from the CD.....Very odd that removing a video card caused all of this... If you have an internet connection with system you can download and install drivers directly vs CD Rom.

I would go to hardware manager in windows and tell it to detect hardware changes.

Right Click My Computer
properties
Hardware
Device Manager
( Look in there to see if you see your drives listed...If listed Windows sees them if not listed then you either have hardware issue or need to have windows detect them.)
To detect hardware changes select the computer icon at the top below help and it is "Scan for hardware changes". Run that and see if that detects hardware and registers hardware changes for OS to see drives.

Good Luck!

Go to device manager & Click on the + sign next to cd/dvdrom then right click on the device & UNINSTALL do on both. Re BOOT the system windows should recognise themIf the above doesn't help...

Try one of these:
1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060
or...
2. Download, and run Restore Missing CD Drive patch
Double click on downloaded file, and allow registry merge.
or...
3. Go to Device Manager, click a "+" sign next to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers.
You'll see two items:
- ATA Channel0 (or Primary Channel)
- ATA Channel1 (or Secondary Channel)
Right click on each of them, and click Uninstal. Confirm.
Restart Windows. They'll be automatically reinstalled.