re: Lost CD RW and DVD
Wednesday, February 6, 2002 at 1:43 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by stargazer
(2 messages posted)
On Wednesday, December 5, 2001 at 7:48 am, Ed Bagley wrote:
>I've been running XP Pro for about 2 Months now, and I had exactly the same problem.
> I have a ASUS DVD and a YAMAHA SCSI CD-RW. I booted up XP one day and NO CD DRIVES.
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Same thing for me. I've had Win XP Pro (full version) installed and running fine
for about a month now. I have a Kenwood Zen 72x CD-ROM and a Plextor 12x10x32x CD-RW.
They HAD been working just fine, but I think the turning point was when I **reinstalled**
Roxio Easy CD 4 (bundled with my Plextor installation CD) ... NOT when removing it.
Anyway, I don't think I noticed anything wrong immediately ... at one point, I simply
went to install a program from a CD, and I immediately noticed that the AutoRun feature
was not kicking in. To my dismay, I went to Windows Explorer (and also opened MyComputer)
and discovered that my two CD drives had disappeared !! I opened Device Manager
and they were still there, but the CD drives had the dreaded yellow circles with
exclamation points.
I am looking in Device Manager right at this moment, and if I go to Properties for
either of the CD drives, it says
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"Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware, but cannot find
the hardware device. (Code 41)".
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As I said, I believe the problems began when I reinstalled Roxio's Easy CD 4.0 from
the Plextor installation CD (for my CD-RW drive) and UMAX scanner CD (**I went to
the UMAX site and found out that my Astra 2100U scanner -- not that old -- is USELESS
under WinXP .... sigh).
Messages arrived later saying that certain drivers and other files were incompatible
with WinXP. I removed the offending programs AND drivers, removed the two CD drives
out of Device Manager, etc. (rebooting after changes) ..... Well, after removing
them from Device Mgr., WinXP "finds" the CD drives OK when I reboot, but I am still
getting the same message .... that the drivers are succesfully installed by WinXP,
but that XP cannot "FIND" the devices (so why do they appear at all in Device Mgr
???).
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The fact that they nevertheless show up in Device Mgr., the $64K question is ...
how the heck would WinXP "know" to install the drivers, unless the devices were "found"
to begin with ?????
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Anyway, I would like to try the registry modification already mentioned in this thread.
Thanks to all who posted so far.
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- Dave G.
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AMD Athlon 1200/266 MHz FSB
512MB DDR 266MHz RAM
(2) WD ATA100 80GB
Kenwood Zen 72X CDROM
Plextor 12x10x32x CDRW
VisionTek 64MB DDR GeForce3 video
Creative SB Live! MP3+
Toshiba Cable Modem
3Com 10/100 NIC
ViewSonic 18" UVGA flat panel monitor
Logitech Cordless Freedom Optical KB & Mouse
WinXP Pro (full)/Norton Internet Security
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