I have a really annoying problem, I have a Pioneer DVD-ROM and a RICOH CDRW, both where working fine under windows 2k. I put adaptec cd creator 5 on, but it got annoying so i uninstalled it. When I uninstalled it neither of my cd's work now. In device mamanger it says "This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31)"
I have tried,
1) Updating the drivers
2) copied the driver files off another computer and tried those
3) Pluged the drive into the other IDE channel
4) Reinstalled windows, (not clean install) only over the top of the old one
Now I am stuck, I can't load put anything else on becuase I need to put it in the cd drive to do that, I can't do a clean install cause there are files on the HDD which i need to keep, i need to be burn them onto a cd first.
Is there anything I can do apart from buy another HDD, back all the data up I need and reformat and do a clean install and hope that works??
I have tried,
1) Updating the drivers
2) copied the driver files off another computer and tried those
3) Pluged the drive into the other IDE channel
4) Reinstalled windows, (not clean install) only over the top of the old one
Now I am stuck, I can't load put anything else on becuase I need to put it in the cd drive to do that, I can't do a clean install cause there are files on the HDD which i need to keep, i need to be burn them onto a cd first.
Is there anything I can do apart from buy another HDD, back all the data up I need and reformat and do a clean install and hope that works??