there no trace of them on "my computer" but it shows up
on device manager with code 39 and they don't work at all
please help me

Take a look at Alex Nichol's excelent article on how to restore the
'disappearing' CD drives.

Cari
www.coribright.com

"tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:01a501c3a240$304d3a00$(E-Mail Removed)...
> there no trace of them on "my computer" but it shows up
> on device manager with code 39 and they don't work at all
> please help me

Where is the article located ... this happened last week
on my Sony laptop ... it is gone ! But I can boot from a
Win98 startup disk and it is there in DOs


>-----Original Message-----
>Take a look at Alex Nichol's excelent article on how to
restore the
>'disappearing' CD drives.
>
>Cari
>www.coribright.com
>
>"tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:01a501c3a240$304d3a00$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> there no trace of them on "my computer" but it shows up
>> on device manager with code 39 and they don't work at
all
>> please help me
>
>
>.
>

> there no trace of them on "my computer" but it shows up
> on device manager with code 39 and they don't work at all
> please help

For a quick fix to this problem, perform the following:

There were values in the registry that are causing the problem. The problem
can be resolved by
going to the Regedit tool and going to the following folder:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/{4D36E965-E325-11C
E-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Once there, right-click on and delete the "UpperFilters" and "LowerFitlers"
values.

I hope this helps anyone else who has this problem with the mysterious
disappearing CD-RW drive.

- Eric