Vista Windows Registry

[Guest]

My optical disk drive quit running reading disks. Checked Device Manager.
The ODD is still installed. Details show an error code 19 and a message
saying something is damaged or corrupted in the Registry. Probably my fault
because I dabble in there every once and a while and probably mistakenly
deleted a key or value. Of course, I do it so often that arrogance lulled me
into not making a backup copy.
While trying to correct the problem I realized I don't know exacltly how
entries in the Registry are created. When Wiindows installs a piece of
hardware, what creates the registry entries? If you have an installation
disk, does that software create the entries for that particular device or
does iWindows query the driver or firmware in this case to create the
entries. This is an OEM device and I have no driver/firmware installation
disk. The device is Plug and Play as far as Windows recognizing the device
and providing a driver, but that doesn't seem to re-write my registry
entries. I've tried disconnecting/uninstalling the drive and
reconnecting/reinstalling the drive and Windows recognizes the drive and its
driver, but I still have the same error in the registry. How do I get this
device or Vista to re-write the drive registry enteries?

 

[Guest]

Still would still like to hear the answer, but, at least, my problem is
solved. I read an old post here on similar error messages and tried their
solution of deleting the filter keys in the registry. Actually I had no
Upper Filter key so that was probably my problem. When I deleted the lower
filter key I got the drive back. Still would like to know what exactly
authors the registry keys and values .

 

[David B.]

These are volunteer groups, reposting after an hour of the original post is
not going to accomplish anything, it is possible it may be hours or days
before you receive a reply.

If it is a registry problem, use system restore to go back to a date before
the problem.
Google also works well if you are impatient.
http://www.google.com/search?q=vist...t:*&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

 

[Rojo Habe]

To be fair, he was only posting back to say he'd fixed the problem. It
wasn't like he was nagging.

 

[David B.]

Yup, that would be me being a dumb a$# and not reading his entire second
post.