On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:20:28 -0700, "BertieBigBollox******.com"
<BertieBigBollox******.com> wrote:

>This is on a Panasonic toughbook CF29. When you insert the removable
>CD drive it doesnt recognise it - running Windows 2000.
>
>Any ideas what would be the first thing to check?

Are you saying that neither CD nor floppy drive are recognised?

Insert a bootable CD/Floppy and see if you can boot to Dos.

I had a similar problem with a Thinkpad T23 some time ago. Windows XP
would not recognise the CD player, but Dos did. Then at least I knew
it was not a hardware problem.

Re-installing windows on top did not fix it. Fortunately I had a Ghost
image of the Windows partition so I could restore it. It works fine
now, but it is a bit frustrating I never really found out what was
wrong with it.


Lars
Stockholm