I've been running Windows 7 for some time and over the past few months I've experienced my CD/DVD drives missing. Sometimes for no apparent reason, they are back and then a few days later, gone. I've tried everything from mr-fixit (which doesn't fix anything) I've tried regedit with the upper and lower thing, but nothing seems to work. I've scaned this andI've scaned that, but nothing. I do get an issue in my eventlog, but can't seem to find anything about the messages. "An error was detected on device \Device\CdRom0 during a paging operation." Do I preserver or buy a Mac?

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This sounds to me like you have a loose cable. Try powering down your system and inspecting all the connections that are used by the dc/dvd. I would unplug and replug in each. Also check the event logs to see if you are getting any conflicts reported. Paul