IDE CD-ROM now gone

From: James Foye (jimfoye2_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/03/04 

Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 15:56:16 -0500

My W2003K stopped seeing the IDE CD-ROM. I can boot to it using the setup
CD. I can go into recovery console and see it. But it doesn't show up in
Explorer. The device manager shows an icon next to it with an exclamation
mark on a yellow background. If I uninstall it and then run the hardware
wizard, it's found, but I end up with the same results. Any ideas? It used
to work just fine. I haven't installed any new hardware on this machine. And
I don't see it in safe mode, either.

JF

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