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by matt5968

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I have a windows 2000 pro. One day the cdrom icon disapeared and then could not access cd rom. I dont know what caused it. It is in the device manager and says its inoperable.
I tried to delete it in device manager and then restarted find new hardware. It goes though the motions of finding it. But after reboot its icon is still no there and shows inoperable in device manager. I also have it dual booting with win me and it works ok under win me.. win 2k was working ok for months no problems..

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by krypto420

Did you install anything(hardware or software) around the time the CD-ROM stopped working? Have you tried updating the drivers? Does it give you any messages in the Device Manager such as an error code or a conflict of some sort? Need more info to help you troubleshoot...

by avswamy

do these things it solve ur problem,
in dos mode edit config.sys and add these things
DEVICE=OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000
and save this file in boot drive root eg:c:\config.sys
get oakcdrom.sys file from system files, and mscdex.exe from system filesboth should be copied to root of the boot drive.
then edit autoexec.bat and add this line
C:\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 and save the file in root of the boot drive and restart u can see this file loads when on booting.

swamy

by ted laun

do a search on the TechRepublic site for this artcle without the quotes

"The fix is in for a disappearing CD-ROM"

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