Please Help !! Lost my CDROM drives

[Musicman50]

Please can someone help ?

I ran a registry cleaner program called BeClean on my Windows XP Pro.
Everything seemed fine, till I rebooted, and then found both my CDROM, and
CDRW drives were not in My Computer.
In the Hardware Devices it shows both drives with an "!" (Yellow
exclamation )..
My guess is it deleted the registry entry for the drives..

Please can someone tell me how to get them back ?
, sadly I do not have a backup of my old registry.

Thanks in advance...

~Phil

<)))><<

 

[Kelly]

Hi Phil,

See if this helps:

Save the file below to your hard drive. Navigate to where you saved it and
double click the file. A confirmation dialog will appear when the script is
done. You may need to reboot for the change to take effect.

Restore CD/DVD in Explorer
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/xp_cd_dvd_fix.vbs

Other than the above:

Troubleshooting Device Manager Issues in Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_dm.htm

Troubleshooting Device Conflicts with Device Manager
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q310126

 

[Musicman50]

Kelly !!!!!!
WOW your Utility worked !!!
Thank you so much.....

Do you mind explaining what that little utility did ?

And Thanks again...

~Phil

 

[Kelly]

Most welcome, Phil. )

That script deletes these four keys:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdr4_2K
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdralw2k
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdudf
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UdfReadr