My pc stop recognising all my drives?

Question

what can I do ?....I have a dvd rw on my laptop and an external vd burner and yesterday both of them stop working .they do not appear on "my computer"anymore.I have scanned for virus with pc cillin , AVG , and pandascan...nothing ....anyone with any idea of what s going on ?

Answer 1

Do they appear in the Device Manager?  If not, then you may have lost some files somehow.  Try going into the BIOS setup and see if they show there.  If not, then try going to Control Panel ---  Add/Remove Hardware and see if you can manually add them again.