ok this occured some time ago when i was installing battlefield 2 i was moving to the third disc when i was about to switch it the disc drive didnt open so i first restarted my pc after it booted up i went to my computer and looked for the dvd drive images both of them were missing i tried everything guys and i get this weird error when i reboot my pc. my DVD-ROM drive will open and i can put a disc in but the pc will not read it and the DVD+rw will not even open at all i look at the bios and went to main only things that are selectable are sataport 0 and Pata Slave everything else is not detected so please guys i been without my disc drives for awhile could i help me heres some screens the best i can do with my webcam

What is the error message verbatim?

Are both drives on the same IDE channel?

im not that sure >< man im kinda newb still learning

edit: this is the error

You said: " i get this weird error when i reboot my pc"

What is that exact error?

Also: Do the drives show in XP's Device Manager?

Right click My Computer then click Manage then Device Manager

Look under DVD/CD-ROM drives

Also look under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers

sorry for late reply had to run somewhere is this what your looking for ? and it was like error 116 i press f4 and the pc boots up normaly

guess no one can help me with this?

So in the Device Manager you have no DVD/CD-ROM entries? Is this correct?

Do you have anything listed under Display adapter?

The yellow question mark for Other Devices is indicating that your graphics device is missing its drivers.

If these drives are not detected in the BIOS are you familiar with working inside computers? Opening the case? etc. If so I would first off check the IDE connections at the motherboard as well as the drives.

Also what is the make and model of the computer?

Also if you can get the exact error message that you get from your BIOS it would help us help.

uh well my card is detected i got a raedon x700 i just had to install the driver let me get the error gotta reboot