Floppy drive....AND ......CD rom disk failure

[proofreader]

kindly refrain from laughing when u read this......I know squiddly about computers......

my floppy drive and my CD rom have stopped working......I have no idea why....I have looked in ....device manager.....and it says.....both devices working properly......any comments or suggestions would be appreciated..

I run Win 98...with 128 ram and a PII.....which works quite well apart from the two dead items as described above....

ta much

 

[Addis]

Can you explain what you mean by stopped working, does your computer not recognize them or do they not operate at all?

 

[proofreader]

Can you explain what you mean by stopped working, does your computer not recognize them or do they not operate at all?

floppy disk.....says that all the floppies are unformatted(which they ARE)....wont let me perform an erase......then says.....do full format......then says......no disk

the CD rom.......does not recognise the presence of a disk at all......

both drive have the most current drivers......as per microsoft

tks

 

[Big B]

Check your cables inside to make sure they're all connected properly, especially if you or someone else has messed around inside it recently.

The other thing is that they both might be kaput given that the system isn't exactly new, and both parts are pretty easy and inexpensive to replace.
Just because the singal is saying the parts are okay doesn't account for any mechanical failures, which could be the case.