Can't detect cd drives.

[Guest]

My cd/dvd drives aren't working at all
not in the physical sense,they open and close just fine and when you place a cd insde you ca see the green light blink and hear the disk spin

The problem here is,that my computer cannot detect the drives at ALL!

The drives don't show up in My Computer,or in windows explorer

I checked the hardware profiles,etc. and i noticed that ther names of the dirives had a little exclamation mark next to it
i checked the propperties and i saw thi

"Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.
the drivers were detected though

Any assistance would be greatly apreciated.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

My cd/dvd drives aren't working at all.
not in the physical sense,they open and close just fine and when you
place a cd insde you ca see the green light blink and hear the disk
spin.

The problem here is,that my computer cannot detect the drives at ALL!!

The drives don't show up in My Computer,or in windows explorer.

I checked the hardware profiles,etc. and i noticed that ther names of
the dirives had a little exclamation mark next to it.
i checked the propperties and i saw this

"Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but
cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device."
the drivers were detected though.

Any assistance would be greatly apreciated.

1) Log on with Administrative Privileges

2) Open the Registry Editor:
a) Go to Start then select Run.
b) Type regedit and click OK.

3) Backup you registry by:
a) Highlight My Computer by clicking on it once.
b) Click File (Windows XP) or Registry (Windows 2000), then Export
Registry File.
c) Select export range All; to ensure your entire registry is backed up
completely.
d) Select where you would like to save this backup, name the File, and
Click on the SAVE button.

4) Remove the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values:
a) Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\
{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
b) Highlight this key by left clicking on it once.
c) On the right hand side delete the values Upperfilters and Lowerfilters.

5) Restart your computer.



Or try this:

http://www.dougknox.com/

Select 'Windows Utilities' and scroll down to 'Restore CD/DVD drives to
Windows Explorer.'
Perhaps his utility will do the trick. =)

 

[Guest]

tanx for the assistance you gave me
however,it didnt really help,though
my knowledge of system regisrty tweaks is limited and i was wondering
what effects would these tweaking tips have on my pc

 

[Shenan Stanley]

tanx for the assistance you gave me.
however,it didnt really help,though.
my knowledge of system regisrty tweaks is limited and i was wondering?
what effects would these tweaking tips have on my pc?

Does "didn't help you" mean you tried it and it did not help OR does it mean
you are afraid to try it?

They are not Tweaks.. They are removing a corrupted entry (or two) so that
Windows can replace them. This is recommended by Micorosft itself - I did
not make it up.

People are so untrusting... (especially when a Google Search for
"upperfilters" or "lowerfilters" could answer your question. heh)
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314060