Downloaded program called INSEKTOR which didn't work but
did mess up WindowsXP recognizing of both the cd-rom and
dvd-rom drives.INSEKTOR was supposed to play copied games
which had read protection. I wanted to make a copy and
store the original(Medieval Total War)in a safe place.
Code 41 says "windows successfully loaded the device
driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware
device[code 41]"
Device manager has yellow exclamation points on the two
cd-rom drives.
"My Computer" does not show the two drives.

Any way to reactivate the two cd,dvd-rom drives short of
re-installing everything?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

"nfarris" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:037401c35a4f$01fe8700$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Solved problem by going to device manager and uninstalling
> cd-rom and dvd-rom. Restarted windows and it found the cd
> and dvd drives. Everything working fine now.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Downloaded program called INSEKTOR which didn't work but
> >did mess up WindowsXP recognizing of both the cd-rom and
> >dvd-rom drives.INSEKTOR was supposed to play copied
> games
> >which had read protection. I wanted to make a copy and
> >store the original(Medieval Total War)in a safe place.
> >Code 41 says "windows successfully loaded the device
> >driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware
> >device[code 41]"
> >Device manager has yellow exclamation points on the two
> >cd-rom drives.
> >"My Computer" does not show the two drives.
> >
> >Any way to reactivate the two cd,dvd-rom drives short of
> >re-installing everything?
> >Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >.
> >

Hey Great news! And a much more elegant solution! What was I thinking?

Regards,
-Lawrence in Seattle