re: Lost CD RW and DVD- A Fix
Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 2:37 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jeff
(1 messages posted)
I have a Sony Vaio running XP with both DVD and CD-RW drives. I installed Easy CD
Creator 5.0 Platinum and everything worked pretty good, with a few funny messages
saying that the other user had in use the CD Direct thing. Last week after I made
my first VCD, the computer lost the CD-RW drive. It shows up no where, and it won't
even eject.
I have tried all of these fixes that these messages offer. I have the DVD and have
uninstalled it and re-installed it and still the computer can not find the CD-RW.
Can anybody help?
On Saturday, January 12, 2002 at 6:12 pm, jaysen wrote:
>When i unstalled Nero's InCD in WinXP, my drive disappeared also. I got back the
>cd drive by uninstalling the driver in the Device Manager and refreshed so it re
>recognized the cd and started the new device wizerd. It then was able to get most
>of the install files from the windows system directory, but asked for the XP cd
(for
>imapi.sys) Since all of Microsoft's products as well as their programmers don't
bother
>to test anything and possess the logic skills of a donut, putting in a cd won't
exactly
>work. Download the imapi.sys driver from http://www.kevansplace.com/mp3city/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/DRIVERS/
> , save to a directory and then point the device wizard to the sys file. After reboot,
>your drive should show up. I read something about deleting the upper and lower bounds
>of a registry entry, but try this one first as i found a lower bound but no upper
>bound as msoft claims there is. Good luck.
>
>
>On Tuesday, December 4, 2001 at 9:44 pm, M Salvail wrote:
>
>I upgraded to Windows XP Pro from 98SE about 3 weeks ago and it had worked perfectly.
>I have not had even one crash! Then, on Monday when I booted up, the CD RW and the
>DVD were gone. They show in Device Manager but with yellow exclamation marks.
>
>I removed the two devices and rebooted, letting Windows find them. It did and then
>searched for drivers, installing up to a certain point. It then prompted for the
>WinXP cd so that it could copy imapi.sys. Well, the Cd Drive does not work so how
>would I give it access to that file?
>
>I got imapi.sys off of another computer and although the driver installation then
>completed, it apparently was not the file it wanted. Is that file specific to a
>computer
>or a particular system? I got this message, "Windows can't start this hardware device
>because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged.
>(Code 19)
>
>I then went to bootdisk.com and downloaded a file and made a WindowsXP bootdisk,
>hoping to regain access to my CD so that I could do a repair. I booted up with the
>floppy and then the Window XP cd started. It ran through the start, then asked me
>what I wanted to do. I chose R, repair and it had c:\windows listed as 1. so I selected
>that.
>
>Next it asked me to put in the Administrator's Password. I had never set one so
>I
>went and set one, rebooted and then put in my password but it said that was wrong.
>Repeatedly. That is the only password,it is what I always use and I am the one that
>set XP up on my computer.
>
>I also tried going back to last Saturday and restoring from there but that did not
>change anything as my drives did not return.
>
>Short of formatting C and reinstalling 98 and then upgrading it to XP Pro, anyone
>have any idea how I can get my CD and DVD drives back?????
>
>My system is an HP Pavilion 9790C and the two missing drives are
>LG CD-RW CED-8080
>SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD612
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
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