CD drives disappeared

[Guest]

After defragging my hard drives, both DVD rom and CDRW drives have disappeared. No drive letters. Tried unistalling/reinstalling. Even tried installing different drives. Get same result. HW is recognized, updated drivers, but still get the Code41. Windows troubleshooting is not helpful. Next step will probably be to reinstall XP, which I would like to avoid. Any ideas?

""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.""

Thanks

 

[Jason Tsang]

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.aspx?scid=kb;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.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060



This fix will also fix code 41 errors as mentioned in the body of the last
url.

--
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

Find out about the MS MVP Program -
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

After defragging my hard drives, both DVD rom and CDRW drives have

disappeared. No drive letters. Tried unistalling/reinstalling. Even tried
installing different drives. Get same result. HW is recognized, updated
drivers, but still get the Code41. Windows troubleshooting is not helpful.
Next step will probably be to reinstall XP, which I would like to avoid. Any
ideas?

""Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but

cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)