Vanishing CD drives

[Julian Richards]

I set up XP on my computer and everything worked fine. Then following
a reboot the CD and DVD/CDRW drives are no longer available in XP even
though they are fine during booting up. In device manager they are
there with an exclamation mark with the message

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

This has now happened twice. The first time it was cured by a fresh
installation of XP but as you imagine, by now such a task will be a
dreadful job with no way of stopping it happening again.

Uninstalling and reinstalling the drives has no effect. Can anyone
help? This one is driving me crazy!
--

Julian Richards

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives

[Julian Richards]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 12:33:29 +0100, Julian Richards
> wrote:

>I set up XP on my computer and everything worked fine. Then following
>a reboot the CD and DVD/CDRW drives are no longer available in XP even
>though they are fine during booting up. In device manager they are
>there with an exclamation mark with the message
>
>"Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but
>cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)"
>
>This has now happened twice. The first time it was cured by a fresh
>installation of XP but as you imagine, by now such a task will be a
>dreadful job with no way of stopping it happening again.
>
>Uninstalling and reinstalling the drives has no effect. Can anyone
>help? This one is driving me crazy!#

It's fixed. To quote Blackadder, I'm like "a Frenchman who has
invented a pair of self-removing trousers". I installed XP on my C
drive with the CD burning software still on the D. This caused the
problem. The solution was courtesy of www.aumha.org



--

Julian Richards

"My son has asked for a pair of Nike trainers.
He's ten years old, he should make his own"

"I bought a CD of whale music. Imagine my
disappointment when I got home to discover
that it was actual a cover version by a tribute
band of dolphins"