can't find my cd & dvd drives. help please!

[tobraham]

1st post. My friend said this site's users helped him on his computer so I'm giving it a shot. I'm not the best with computers but can fix minor problems from time to time. But I have no idea what to do w/ this one.

A few days ago I was looking in "My Computer" and didn't see the icons for my CD & DVD drives. I went to Nero to burn a CD and it didn't detect a drive to burn with. What should I do to remedy this problem??

 

[Spec]

Bad cables. Driver issues. Uh..do you know how to get into the bios and can you tell me if it has something as SLAVE/Master and whatnot?

 

[tobraham]

Yes, fortunately I can find the BIOS on my computer. It reads....

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1st Channel Master [ST3160021A]
1st Channel Slave [None]
2nd Channnel Master [IDE-DVD Rom 16x]
2nd Channel Slave [Asus CRW-4832]
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Thanks for the help

oh, and it said [None] for 3rd & 4th channels, too.