XP can't find my CD player...Help!

Hello all you smart people out there, Windows Xp Pro cannot find my cd player,so I can't use it at all. When I boot up it shows it there but when I go to use it XP says there isn't a CD player on this computer. Also the CD player cannot be found in "My Computer". And in "Device Manager" it has an exclamation point next to the cd rom. I have tried to uninstall it & reinstall it several times, to no avail. XP finds the new hardware & loads the driver but I can never access it. Any help is appreciated. Peace . Mike H

 

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