cd/dvd drives not showing in my computer or device manager.theres no error messages?

Question

my McAfee suite detected some trojan spyware on pc &since deleting them i've the above problem.my HD boot-up light is permanently on.Think ive got serious registry problems.bought the "windows advisor" manual which has cd to repair damaged registry but cant use the enclosed cd nor reload win-xp cause drive not working.went into the registry manually &deleted the upper&lower filters but no joy still.
Also my pc is very slow.my pc takes ages to load&log off also and IE crashes often.On boot-up i get message"sec slave driver-incompatible".
Ive gone into BIOS settings &think that ive buggered it.
HELP ME!PLEASEEEE. whats the proper bios/cmos settings.and what can i do to get cd/dvd drives working.
Ive a "PHILIPS-PCRW404 cd-rw" and "TOSHIBA-SDMI502 dvd-rom" . A "Ga-71XEA"motherboard,AMD Athlon(tm)1.01GHz processor,448MB Ram ,Win-xp sp-2.

Any advice will be greatly welcomed b4 i bash it 2death "proper"with a baseball bat.

Answer 1

Go back into the BIOS and set it back to Default. If that brings the CD back, you can then run the Recovery Console. Put your XP CD in the drive, and when you get to the screen that asks weather you want to load Windows, or try to repair windows, choose "Repair". That will open the Command Prompt. At the prompt type "chkdsk /r" without the quotes. Also, there is a space between K & /. Let your computer run until chkdsk completes. If this brings the system back, it sounds like you will need to run all of your security software again.

If you find that your CD drive has crashed, replace it. Also you could try plugging in a known good CD drive just as a test.

And last, download AVG anti virus. Uninstall McAfee and install AVG. The free version is just anti virus software and nothing else. For spyware I prefer Adaware & Spybot. Both free and both work very well. Over the past years I have found the both McAfee and Norton are way to aggressive and can do some real harm to a system.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

being an older pc i say there on ide so in the bios set all 4 to auto that is ide 1 prim and slave ide 2 prim and slave some have a mode setting as well set it to auto as well