Shoutbox

ok I need help.

I want to reformat my other comp because windows was messed up and it no longer works. I wanted to save my stuff first. So I put in a 3 gig hardrive. But when I did that my cd rom dissapeared from the bios and the harddrive replaced it. Now I tryed everything on the hard drive (cable select, master and slave) but it still replaces it. So I went a head and moved all my files to the new drive not thinking it would hurt anything. When I removed the hard drive and went to format the main hard drive my cd rom no longer works. The lights stay on (on the cd rom) and nothing happends. I can't even open the cd rom and now it wont show in the bios. Is there a reset on a cd rom? How can I get it back?

Please help.