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More info?)
Can you please tell me a bit more about what this does? I have a somewhat
similar problem since I installed SP2. I can't seem to properly load any
drivers for hardware that windows should recognize. If I install something
that has it's own drivers I'm fine. If I install a DVD writer or new hard
drive, the device actually works, but it never finds a driver and doesn't
show up right in device manager. Every time I reboot it looks for a new
driver. Should this solve my problem for the DVD drive? And where should I
look for HD?
Thanks!
"Bob Knowlden" wrote:
> Check this:
>
>
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553
>
> "CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive appears to be missing after you install
> Windows XP"
>
> (There are other ways to get the bad registry keys than doing an upgrade
> installation of XP. Roxio Easy CD Creator seems to usually be involved.)
>
> If you don't care to manually remove the Registry keys, there are automated
> utilities that can do it:
>
>
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_cd_dvd_fix.htm
>
> A warning: once, I updated Easy CD Creator on my work system. (It's running
> Win2k, but that can exhibit similar problems.) Simply removing the
> "upperfilters" and "lowerfilters" wasn't adequate - I had to uninstall Easy
> CD Creator, and then manually eliminate a lot of Registry keys, to restore
> the machine to a pre-Roxio condition. I was then able to install a newer
> version of ECDC (which is standard on the Dell systems at my employer), and
> everything was serene again.
>
> HTH.
>
> Address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.
>
> "leend" <leend@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8DA35480-BE15-417C-B4CE-ED7F05B69B06@microsoft.com...
> > one of the 2 that i tried to put in was a cd burner.
> >
> > just to mention that i've been all over the net trying to find any kind of
> > driver that will work, and have found none.
> >
> > i also did the "update drivers" manually thing and tried a few different
> > ones, none worked. all have the same errors.
> >
> > "Sandman" wrote:
> >
> >> Windows XP? Of course... Yup, Xp should jus recognize them, but maybe you
> >> replaced,( by your definition) , an old cheap cd-rom with another old and
> >> cheap cd-rom...Go for a cd burner; they cost about 50 bux and they also
> >> record and go alot faster than your old cd-roms.
> >> "leend" <leend@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1630366C-CC0F-44D1-B046-E81182121299@microsoft.com...
> >> > an old & cheap cd-rom recently went out in one of my machines. i have a
> >> few
> >> > extra ones so i was going to put one of them in. i have tried 2
> >> > different
> >> > ones, and both times windows wont install drivers. they are pretty
> >> > generic
> >> > cd-roms so it shouldn't be that complicated. windows should just
> >> > recognize
> >> > them and install right?
> >> >
> >> > the drive is marked with an exclamation point in the device manager and
> >> > it
> >> > has this erorr message in the status window:
> >> >
> >> > "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver
> >> > may
> >> be
> >> > corrupted or missing. (Code 39)
> >> >
> >> > Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device"
> >> >
> >> > it did that same thing for both drives and i cannot find drivers on the
> >> net
> >> > that work either. any suggestions/help?
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>
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