My DVD/CDRW has disappeared

[Jason]

My DVD/CDRW has somehow dissappeared from my computer at
no fault of mine. I was attempting to burn a cd from my
windows media player 9 and a unknown application error
occured. Now the cd player will not even open or work on
my laptop. I looked up potential troubleshooting
possibilities and I came across slowing the recording
speed. Thats when it disappeared from the computer and I
am positive I followed the directions exactly. How can I
restore the driver or even have my computer recognize that
I even have DVD/CDRW player in the computer so that I can
even reinstall it.

[Jason Tsang]

Do you see the drives in your device manager?
Do they have a warning on them?

If so, this should help you.

Goto http://www.aumha.org/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 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;[LN];q314060

--
Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

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

"Jason" > wrote in message
...
> My DVD/CDRW has somehow dissappeared from my computer at
> no fault of mine. I was attempting to burn a cd from my
> windows media player 9 and a unknown application error
> occured. Now the cd player will not even open or work on
> my laptop. I looked up potential troubleshooting
> possibilities and I came across slowing the recording
> speed. Thats when it disappeared from the computer and I
> am positive I followed the directions exactly. How can I
> restore the driver or even have my computer recognize that
> I even have DVD/CDRW player in the computer so that I can
> even reinstall it.

[Ascot McBoobies]

Call the police.

If they have not been physically removed look up the issue like missing
CDRW in google and add site:www.microsoft.com after the search terms. This
is common.

"Jason" > wrote in news:03d001c30ab6$4e8c2980
:

> My DVD/CDRW has somehow dissappeared from my computer at
> no fault of mine.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Try the links below

1http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314060
..A Goto http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.php#problems

Alvin







Jason wrote:

> My DVD/CDRW has somehow dissappeared from my computer at
> no fault of mine. I was attempting to burn a cd from my
> windows media player 9 and a unknown application error
> occured. Now the cd player will not even open or work on
> my laptop. I looked up potential troubleshooting
> possibilities and I came across slowing the recording
> speed. Thats when it disappeared from the computer and I
> am positive I followed the directions exactly. How can I
> restore the driver or even have my computer recognize that
> I even have DVD/CDRW player in the computer so that I can
> even reinstall it.