Hard Drive won't see vdv/cd-ROMS

Can anyone help me? 2 days ago, I had a problem with one of my hard drives I have on my Dell Dimension 8400 desk top. Bassically, it was stuck in the start up mode on my desktop. So I put in the Windows XP pro /sp2 cd. and I ran the repair. (by this I mean that I made my way through the cd as if I was going to do an install of the os.and not the repair in console) I had 3 virtual drives on my hard drive and when it was done, my virtual drives were still there and both my Cd/DVD R and CD/DVD +/- RW were not there, so I re ran the repair of the os, unplugging everything but the monitor, keyboard and mouse and I even deleted my 3 virtual drives.

My hard drive still does not see my drives nor when I put a cd in it wont do anything. However, when I log on to my other hard drive, they are there and they work..Any ideas??

I am running a:
Pent 4 (HT) 3.26 GHz
N-Vidia Gforce 6600 256mb video card
Creative sound blaster audigy 2 zs
_NEC DVD +- RW ND-3530A
HK-DT-ST DVD-RON GDR8163B
Microsoft Windows XP professional with sp2

sorry its long, I wanted to get everything you may need to help me

 

Your problem sounds like the one I had. When I deleted I-tunes and the dvd/cd rom icons dissappeared on me. They were still there, but hidden. I did a system restore and they came back! So, I'm pleased as punch now.

Maybe one of the experts here can help you, like they helped me. They are great!

 

Thank you Janice for your response. I unfortunatly cant do a system restore now. I repaired the os and wipped all that out like it was a new boot.....oh, well, woe is me...lol
Hopefully they can help....

 

goto the device manager>view>tick show hidden devices

do you see your drives now?

 

no, I did that and I can't see it. Maybe I forgot to mention this, but if I also put a cd or dvd in either my CD/DVD R OR CD/DVD RW drives, nothing happens, it wont run. I cant exucute anything from them. I can on the other hard drive but not this on. I am probably gonna have to reformat it but trying not to..

 

what virtual drive are you using? you need to remove it manually.

I know with alcohol and I'm pretty sure w/ daemons tools you delete in dev manager > system devices > USB plug and play BIOS extention. And there are these drivers a347scsi.sys that need to be removed, I think vax347s.sys in the new version. They also can be found in the dev manager > non-plug and play drivers. Although make sure you run the programs uninstaller first.

HERE is a better explanation. But that's only if you're using alcohol.

 

I am using alcohol 120%, but I did remove the virtual drives manually using Alcohol..I really think I may need to reformat and start all over, but I am trying to avoid that step if I can..