Recently I managed to kill the use of both my CD-RW and
DVD-ROM drives. XP pro will acknowledge the drives are on
the IDE chain. XP will try and apply drivers to the
devices. However the Device manager states: "Windows
cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The
driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" for both
drives. This problem started after installing the Adaptec
ASPI drivers for XP. XP obviously took exception to the
drivers or the installation. If I uninstall either or
both drives in the device manager and reboot or "Scan for
Hardware Changes", XP responds with the Found New
Hardware dialog. If I select "Install the Software
Automatically", XP will return the error "Cannot Install
the Hardware: The Hardware was not installed because the
wizard cannot find the necessary software". Before all
this happened, the Driver being used was a Microsoft
Digitally signed driver set. How do I get my drives back?

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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"Aaron" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Recently I managed to kill the use of both my CD-RW and
> DVD-ROM drives. XP pro will acknowledge the drives are on
> the IDE chain. XP will try and apply drivers to the
> devices. However the Device manager states: "Windows
> cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The
> driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)" for both
> drives. This problem started after installing the Adaptec
> ASPI drivers for XP. XP obviously took exception to the
> drivers or the installation. If I uninstall either or
> both drives in the device manager and reboot or "Scan for
> Hardware Changes", XP responds with the Found New
> Hardware dialog. If I select "Install the Software
> Automatically", XP will return the error "Cannot Install
> the Hardware: The Hardware was not installed because the
> wizard cannot find the necessary software". Before all
> this happened, the Driver being used was a Microsoft
> Digitally signed driver set. How do I get my drives back?

Okay, that sort of fixed the drive issue. Thank you very
much. Lets see if you can help me with the other issue
that has cropped up and an existing issue. When I play an
Audio CD, the Audio only comes out of right speaker, but
not the Left. WAV/mp3 files coming from my HD paly with
no fidelity issues. Also, the drivers being used for both
drives are not the same. Only one driver is being used
now. cdrom.sys. Before there were five drivers when it
was functioning. Also ripping does not work. The reason I
tried to install ASPI drivers was that I could not rip
songs off an Audio-CD. The ripping worked fine until one
day it would not. basically what happened was this (I
posted this in another forum a day or so ago):

Recently my ability to extract audio from Audio CDs has
discontinued in Win XP Pro. I have tried three different
programs and they all attempt to extract the audio, but
no audio data is captured. I just get empty audio files.
The Audio files will be the correct length in time, but
no sound is saved in the files. I originally was using
Magix's "mp3 Maker Platinum" without any problems. I
ripped almost my entire CD collection to mp3s (some 12GBs
worth) and then one day, it decided not to work any more.
Figuring it was the s/w, I tried iTunes. Same issue.
After a while I discovered that iTunes and mp3 Maker
would not even play an Audio CD. If I inserted a disc,
WinXP would recognize the disc as an Audio CD, but when I
launched one of these programs, winXP would no longer
recognize the drive as having a disc in it. I then tried
EAC with LAME as my mp3 encoder. Same issue. Meanwhile
WinAmp 2.91 would recognize and play Audio CDs just fine
on both drives. I got tired of this and uninstalled the
drivers for my CD-RW (Plextor PlexWriter 16/10/40A IDE)
and DVD-ROM (basic Sony unit) and reinstalled. Now the
programs recognize the Audio discs and will play them,
yet ripping audio files produces the results I discribed
above (Ie files with no audio data). Its as if the WAV
data is being ripped with no wave form, just silence. I
have searched around quite a bit and can not seem to find
an answer. Help!? Sound Card: SB Live! Platinum.

Thank you