I have an LG CED-8080b CD/RW and a Samsung SD-608 DVD-ROM.
My problem is somehow over night they both disappeared
from My Computer and Windows in all. Under further
inspection I found the same error with both the drives as
i was using the standard MS CD-ROM drivers. The following
is what i recieved:

"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware.
The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

The driver signer is: Microsoft Windows XP Publisher
and the version of driver is: 5.1.2535.0

I also took the trouble of checking the driver info in
driver manager and they display with no sign of problem.

Also to save people the trouble of mentioning I have
already Uninstalled the driver and restarted the computer
to recieve the same problems. I have also tries to find
drivers for the devices to replace the ones which seem to
have the error to no avail :-(

Any help is HIGHLY apriciated!
Erik.

Goto http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.php#problems
See the second "problem" (read the caveats)
Run the provided registry patch

That should fix your problem (basically, a filter driver is missing or
non-operational, the registry patch will delete the filter drivers
references for your cdrom(s))


Basically, the reg file from above carries out the steps displayed at this
website


CD-ROM Drive or DVD-ROM Drive Missing After You Install Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;320553

CD-ROM Access Is Missing and Messages Cite Error Code 31, Code 32, Code 19,
or Code 39 After You Remove Easy CD Creator in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314060





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"Erik McKay" <sarclet-@sarclet-head.co.uk> wrote in message
news:14a201c385c2$202410d0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have an LG CED-8080b CD/RW and a Samsung SD-608 DVD-ROM.
> My problem is somehow over night they both disappeared
> from My Computer and Windows in all. Under further
> inspection I found the same error with both the drives as
> i was using the standard MS CD-ROM drivers. The following
> is what i recieved:
>
> "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware.
> The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"
>
> The driver signer is: Microsoft Windows XP Publisher
> and the version of driver is: 5.1.2535.0
>
> I also took the trouble of checking the driver info in
> driver manager and they display with no sign of problem.
>
> Also to save people the trouble of mentioning I have
> already Uninstalled the driver and restarted the computer
> to recieve the same problems. I have also tries to find
> drivers for the devices to replace the ones which seem to
> have the error to no avail :-(
>
> Any help is HIGHLY apriciated!
> Erik.