cdrom drive not working

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Hi All,

My cdrom drive doesn't show up in windows explorer.
It can't be accessed even when I try to update the driver
using the windows xp cd.. and mention there to look in
cd-rom drives for the driver.
Catch 22 I suppose.

I have tried
Reboot into safe-mode, uninstall device, reboot.
Didn't work.

*It does boot into a bootable rescue disk though.*

The CDROM is a: Teac CD-224E-BA and it shows under
DVD/CD-ROM drives in the control panel with a yellow !bang!

Any thing else I can try?
Thanks!

.

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