X on the Cd/Dvd drive in device manager

Here is the problem, I was trying to burn a cd, and I got the error message, that no cd or dvd drive is detected. I looked in the device manager and there is a red x over the listing for the dvd/rw listing.

Is this a driver problem? How could I possibly fix this, I tried to fix it with the add new hardware, but no luck....

Win Xp - Emachine

Lolli

TIA

 

Anyone?

 

Just a couple of guesses here at things to look at,

First go back to the device manager and right click or look towards the top and remove the drive then either do a refresh or search for new hardware. If it does not find it then the next thing might be easy depending on the last time you were in your case, if you recently installed RAM, or anything near that area then you might check to see if the cables are in all the way.
Next if they are in all the way and still no joy then try switching the power cable with an extra one on the case. If you have recently changed your drive or added another one then it could be a jumper problem. Do the lights on your drive come on? does it run when you insert a disk? Does the drive show up in "My Computer"? A lot of these things will help you determine if it's a date cable, a driver or a power problem. Also if you right click the x'd out drive there should be an error code there that the driver is not installed, etc.
Just a couple of guesses to try.