Laptop cd drive unistalled

My fujitsu siemens amilo pro laptop has somehow managed to unistall its cd drive and unistall its wireless - is there any way to get these back? Also it has somehow partitions its drive so i have only half the memory.
I use windows xp pro, i woul appreciate any help

Cheers

 

Have you recently installed itunes or an ipod? I've seen that unmount the CD drive a couple of times, apparently due to a registry change made by some of apple's copy protection measures. Theres a registry fix available but google is down for me right now so I can't find it unfortunately.

Hope that gives you a few clues.

Also, is it a new install of xp pro or is it the version the laptop shipped with? A lot of laptops use very specific hardware that XP Pro retail doesnt have the drivers for, so you have to find them manually from the manufacturers discs.

 

No i haven't installed itunes or ipod, and i have been using the laptop quite a while with xp pro, it just recently starting going weird like this, and i had to reformat the drive a few weeks ago.