Hi, I was playing a game online (raindbow six but i think it is irrelevant) when all of a sudden then game exited for no reason and the mouse started moving on the screen. In order to play i had my firewall down so there is a chance that someone hacked me although i pretty sure i have no trojans on my computer.

Anyway since this happened i now have no CDRW drive in windows explorer, i still have my other CD-Rom drive which would have been in use while i played the game.
I have looked in device manager and the CDRW drive no longer exists in there either. I have tried a system restore with no luck and really dont know what else to try, please help me.

I am using windows xp home edition SP1

You will have to go through the process of installing the CD/RW drive again, which XP has great Plug & Play feature and should have noticed the drive when you booted your PC.

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try removing the IDE cable, booting your computer without the drive attached, then power down and put the drive back on.

Also take a look at your BIOS settings for your drives, maybe set them to auto-detect.

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