Win XP CD Drives

[John Tahaney]

I keep getting a message that my CD drives have been
disabled on boot up and the drives do not appear when I
click on "My Computer"
When I look at the system manager, they are there, but
had a yellow dot on them. I could reload the drivers,
but they are on a CD and of course the system doesn't see
the CDs.
Is there anyway I can overcome this and get my CD drives
back?

Thanks,
John

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

Try this option

Goto http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.php#problems
See the second "problem" (read the caveats)
Run the provided registry patch
CDROM will not read. Here is the process to fix
Pls read the following messages from Mark:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{
4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Highlight the CDRom Drive Key(s), delete the
Values "UpperFilters" and/or "LowerFilters"
Open Device Manager (Winkey-Break, or start/run,
type 'sysdm.cpl / Hardware Tab)
Remove the entry for the cd device(s), then restart.

Alvin


John Tahaney wrote:

> I keep getting a message that my CD drives have been
> disabled on boot up and the drives do not appear when I
> click on "My Computer"
> When I look at the system manager, they are there, but
> had a yellow dot on them. I could reload the drivers,
> but they are on a CD and of course the system doesn't see
> the CDs.
> Is there anyway I can overcome this and get my CD drives
> back?
>
> Thanks,
> John

[Alex Nichol]

John Tahaney wrote:

>I keep getting a message that my CD drives have been
>disabled on boot up and the drives do not appear when I
>click on "My Computer"
>When I look at the system manager, they are there, but
>had a yellow dot on them. I could reload the drivers,
>but they are on a CD and of course the system doesn't see
>the CDs.

You had some drivers - probably associated with a burning package - that
have been removed or disabled as incompatible. and the system will not
use the CD without them. But references to them remain in the registry.
To tidy up, get a registry patch file, cdgone.reg, from
www.aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip, extract it, r-click on it and merge
it into the registry

You will then need to reinstall any burning software that you *do* use.


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.

[Alex Nichol]

Alvin A Brown wrote:

>
>Goto http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.php#problems

Thank you for suggesting this, but please do *not* use the .php
extension, as the site is reorganised and php will not be found. Use
http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcd.htm#problems

instead - and generally htm as extension in all references to the site



--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows - File Systems)
Bournemouth, U.K.