Stumped: None of my CD-ROM/RW Devices are working

[KingTrav1]

First off, I know this should be in the Tech Support forums, but I posted it there two days ago and I have gotten 2 replies, both of which did not work. I'd like to get some more people to see the problem before I reformat. Sorry..

Posted in Tech Forums:

I went to burn a CD for a friend and when I tried to burn it, EZ CD Creator said that it could not detect any cd-rw drives on my computer. So I went to Device Manager and it said this..

Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

So I removed the device and restarted to see if I could get windows to reinstall it or something. Got the same error. I thought maybe my burner took a crap on me so I took it out and put in my another CD-ROM drive and it did the same thing. It was working just like a week ago, and I can't recall any changes that I've made to cause this. I should also note that not even the device that Daemon Tools creates is working (for virtual CDs), same error. Hard drive on the same IDE channel is working fine as well.

Anyone know of a way to fix this nice and quickly without a format? (yes, I made sure everything was connected) Thanks in advance.

Specs:
MSI KT133 Pro2-A
Tbird 1.1ghz
512 PC133
WinXP Pro (no SP1)
Mitsumi CR-4802TE (RW Drive)
Creative CD5223E (52x CDROM)

The few things I have tried and what people have told me to try...

1. Make sure BIOS settings are correct
2. Make sure jumpers are correct and everything is plugged in correctly
3. Uninstall Secondary IDE Channel from windows and restart (reinstalls)
4. Uninstalled both CD drives and reinstalled
5. Flip flopped and replaced drives with older ones
6. One person said it was because of WMP and Easy CD Creator

I think that is about it, all of which, of course, did not work. Oh, let me note that I've been using this set up for at least a year and it's not a problem with pri/sec IDE channels and stuff. Thanks for any help in advance.

 

[EmoshBZ]

I often note down solutions to problems I come across in various Forums... here is one answer for the CD Missing problem.


<QUOTE>
The CD drives missing might be because you have Nero or other CD burning software installed. This reg mod fixed my woes with missing CD ROM/RW drives:

Remove the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values completely from the following registry
key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Then reboot.





ok try this and see if it helps......I had a missing cdrom and cdrw drive problem and this solution helped me get it back.

 

[KingTrav1]

Thank you so much! It worked!!