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by longmanjay

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Floppy and cdrom drive letter/icon not showing in windows explorer or my computer. If uninstall any one from device manager and reinstall it the letter/icon will be vissible.

The operating system is windows2000 and the computer is a Dell laptop. How do I rectify this problem.

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by Former member

Your not going to like the answer. I had a simlar problem. I upgraded my NT 4 workstation and my cd rom went away. It was still there on the hardware lookup but would not show in 2000. I did not get the device back until I reloaded my OS from scratch. I figure that there were just too many old registry issue.

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by cascom

I suspect that your floppy drive and CD drive are interchangeable devices that fit in the same "hole" in the laptop.
You will have to take this up with Dell, seems their driver does not communicate with Win2000 properly.
OR you do not have the latest Win2000 drivers for your laptop loaded.

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