600X fails to see CDROM in ultrabay...

[SatDoug]

Hi everyone...stumbled upon this web site and thought I'd join...first, because I have a problem with an old 600X, and second because I'm really interested in the Z60M (once it comes with a dual core!).
OK...my problem:
I'm running Win 2000 Pro on an old ThinkPad 600X. It has a CDROM drive in its ultra bay. Windows will not see it. The notebook will not even see it. I changed the BIOS so that the CDROM is the first drive to be booted to, and even with the Windows 2k CD in the drive it hangs for about 5 seconds & then continues to the hard drive. I did reset the BIOS, but same problem. The CD drive activity light does blink upon boot or just after inserting a CD (it begins to read). For the hell of it I bought another CDROM drive for this notebook on eBay for a few bucks & get the exact same response, so I do not believe it to be a defective drive. I haven't purchased a floppy drive for it, because though it would be nice to get it to work, I don't want to invest a lot of time/$$$ to this old web surfer. Any ideas? Maybe see if Lenovo has updated BIOS? But...1. I don't want to make some mistake & cripple my working notebook (now I just cannot read CD's), and usually IBM/Lenovo makes you make a bootable floppy or CD...which is my Catch 22 problem (I do have ability to download as well as a USB port to connect my flash drive to). To add more info...Windows 'sees' a floppy drive. If I uninstall it, and take out the CDROM drive, and then re-install the CDROM drive, the floppy drive comes back! It is as if it thinks the CDROM drive is a floppy. But even if I put a CD in, and x2 click the floppy A drive, I get a 'please insert disc' message. Too bad..I could have lived with that problem!
Any takers on this one?!?!?!