re: Lost CD RW and DVD- A Fix
Wednesday, January 5, 2005 at 2:55 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Barbara Wesley
(1 messages posted)
I am having the same problems that the others are describing, but removing the upper
filters etc did not solve my problem. I tried to go to kevansplace but the link could
not be found. I do not have the question mark or explanation mark as others have
in the device manager. Can you help me?
Barb
On Saturday, January 12, 2002 at 6:12 pm, mike 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.
>
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