I erased some registry values using Nero's DriverCleanTool and now my
CD/DVD write drive doesn't work anymore. It has power and the drive
opens and closes but my computer is not recognising the drive.
How do I fix this problem without having to reinstall Windows XP? I
have 22 episodes of a tv show on my hard drive that I haven't burned
yet and I really don't want to lose them.

I tried removing and reinstalling Nero. I also tried a system restore
and that didn't help.

I also un-installed and re-installed the dvd drive. When I go to device
manager and goto the drive there is a yellow exclamation point next to
it (it's there before I un-install and it's the same thing after I
re-install the drive)

It's a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B (Samsung drive)

Drivers:
CDRAL.DLL, CDRALW2K.SYS

and stopped some Services:
service: CDR4_XP
service: CDRALW2K


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ald6420@optonli

See:
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows



"ald6420@optonli" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> I erased some registry values using Nero's DriverCleanTool and now my
> CD/DVD write drive doesn't work anymore. It has power and the drive
> opens and closes but my computer is not recognising the drive.
> How do I fix this problem without having to reinstall Windows XP? I
> have 22 episodes of a tv show on my hard drive that I haven't burned
> yet and I really don't want to lose them.
>
> I tried removing and reinstalling Nero. I also tried a system restore
> and that didn't help.
>
> I also un-installed and re-installed the dvd drive. When I go to device
> manager and goto the drive there is a yellow exclamation point next to
> it (it's there before I un-install and it's the same thing after I
> re-install the drive)
>
> It's a TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B (Samsung drive)
>
> Drivers:
> CDRAL.DLL, CDRALW2K.SYS
>
> and stopped some Services:
> service: CDR4_XP
> service: CDRALW2K
>
>
> --
> ald6420@optonli