Cd drives there but not there!

After having my USB ports activated at a shop, my cd drives (F: and G Do not work.
They are recognised and loaded at start up, can be found in the device manager, but not in windows explorer. This sounds like a little bit different problem than the ones where they aren't showing anywhere.
I have tried deleting them, and having win98 try and find new hardware again. If it does, then it assigns both cd drives the same drive letter. When that happened I thought maybe the problem was conflicing drive letters and changed one. That didn't work and now I can't even get that to happen.
I'm at a loss here, any suggestions?
Rob

 

You may have used up all of your default drive letters. Go to start, run and type sysedit, In your config.sys file
Add the line "lastdrive=z" without quotes.
This will allow windows to see drives beyond letter E

SeeYa

 

Thanks for giving me something to try. I added that line and rebooted and no luck. It shows they are being assigned a drive letter in the device manager under properties of each drive. But it was doing that before I added anything.
Any other ideas? I need my cd drive to work!!

 

Okay,
Don't know what I did to fix the problem. But its fixed! I changed out a cdrom and the ribbon wire. Now its back to normal. Thanks for the help anyway. I will definitely come back for more assistance. And maybe be able to give a point in the right direction if someone has a problem I have encountered.