My DVD/CD RW drive has dissapeared from Windows. Help!

Somewhere during messing around trying to get a faulty Floppy Drive to work, now my DVD drive no longer shows up in Windows or is a recognized IDE during POST. I had to reconnect the cables a couple times while manuevering the Floppy cable and I also tried out some different nForce drivers. Im not sure which triggered it but I think I got a sign something went wrong rebooting windows during this troubleshooting stretch. Windows froze for the first time during load up and gave me that "Windows didnt load properly" message and something about the hardware changing. I thought maybe my Floppy was going to work now (it didnt) and then I noticed my DVD drive was no where to be found in My Computer. Oh boy.
So I made sure the IDE cable was connected properly, no change. I rolled back to the initial driver set, no change. Not sure what route to go next. The power light comes on and the drive ejects properly. The mobo just doesnt think its connected for some reason. Round cable gone bad? I hope my board isnt the culprite. Any help on this would be appreciated.

Could be the cable or could be the pins on the DVD drive (assuming your bios is set correctly). This problem would not be caused by windows if your bios isn't detecting it. I would pull the drive out and check the pins. If memory serves me there should be ONE missing. If it is more than that you will need to replace the drive. You could also try plugging it in on the same cable as the hard drive (make sure you switch it to slave) and see whether or not it is detected. That would rule out the cable.
Good Luck and post your results
Jeremy

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