CD ROM Drives Can't Load Driver

[Wayne Wengert]

All of a sudden, both of my CD ROM drives show an error in device manage
(code 39). My drives are Lite-On SOHD-16P9S and Lite-On SOHW-16735. The
drives have been working for over a year? The only recent change has been to
re-load the driver for a RAID 1 controller. The error claims it cannot find
the drivers but if I uninstall and then re-install the devices, the wizard
says that the driver I am using is the most recent? The driver pointed to by
both drives is Cdr4_xp.sys in Windows/system32/drivers.

Any suggestions on how to correct this?

 

[Gary 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


(It'll fix code 41 errors too as per the contents of the last kb article)




--
Gary Tsang
http://www.gtsang.com

Microsoft MVP - Windows Media Center

http://www.microsoft.com/mvp

 

[Wayne Wengert]

Gary;

Thanks very much. That cleared up the problem.

Wayne

 

[pfhiggins]

Hi,

I had the same problem, I tried to uninstall Roxio cd creator, and as a
result of doing so I was then unable to access my cd or dvd drive. Each
time I booted the pc I get the dreaded blue screen informing me that
there was a prob with the cdr4_xp.sys

I rebooted in safe mode and renamed the cdr4_sys.exe file (located in
windows>system32>drivers) then rebooted as normal.

Then I did a system restore, if like me you are slightly worried about
trying this this link is great
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322756
download the guided help and it will do all the work for you.

I selected a restore date from last month and bingo it worked...

Thanks to this thread for pointing me in the right direction.

Paul