devices with removable storage

[youhooie]

A family member unhooked my hardrive and hooked up another to apparently check theirs out then reconnected mine.  Every time I start the computer now I get the Found New Hardware message for the CDR drive and the DVD drive.  Their respective icons appear in the Devices with Removable Storage in My Computer for a brief moment then disappear and neither unit will spool up when a disc is installed.  Any ideas will be greatly appreciated on how to get the drives to be recognized by the computer and functional again.

[Hardist]

Doesn't it even begin to spool at all? That's not normal indeed. If I were you, I would first remove the upper and/or lower filters from your registry, read this article on how to do so:

http://www.2extreme.eu/forums/index.php?/topic/65-cd-dvd-player-not-recognised/

Also check if you can use a boot disk to check if it works outside of Windows.