Advice sought: Windows can't see my CD drive

[ciphergoth]

Summary: Windows 98 still can't see my CD drive. Do I have any option besides a reinstall?

One day, without cause that I can figure out, I booted Windows on my laptop and found that the CD-ROM drive was no longer listed among the drives. Linux can still see and use the drive just fine, but even if I disable and re-enable it in the BIOS, Windows doesn't see it.

I found this out when trying to re-install network drivers under Windows, so I don't currently have Windows networking either.

If you had such a problem, where would you go for advice?

many thanks in advance...

Comments

Sorry, not very helpful

[babysimon]

That happened to me once. I can't remember how I solved it, or if it just went away.

You have, of course, looked in detail through the Hardware Manager tree thingy to see if suddenly you've got some sort of IRQ conflict? PnP under Windows can be a bit icky like that.

Re: Sorry, not very helpful

[babysimon]

But of course, you wouldn't care, being "a fundamentalist stallmanite" or whatever it was you said :-P

Re: Sorry, not very helpful

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Probably "not quite a fundamentalist Stallmanite" :-)

I haven't used my Windows partition for weeks, but Alison wants it working for various BiCon applications.

Re: Sorry, not very helpful

[babysimon]

Fair enough. Anyway, did you get any luck out of the Device / Hardware Manager?