Don’t you just hate it, you go round to somebodies house,and they mention that they could do with a little help with a problem on their computer and then a while later you’re still sitting there scratching your head LoLWell today was one of those days, but thankfully an answer was forthcoming very quickly 🙂
A friends HP desktop machine had mysteriously lost it’s cdrom and cd burner, they were there, listed in device manager, but marked as having problems – so I did the first thing we all try, uninstall them, reboot and let XP do it’s magic and bring them back again – but this time no joy… so I did a bit of searching…
It’s been a while since someone had brought me this problem, mainly it happened when people got SP2, but still, these things always raise their ugly heads when you least expect, but today I was on top googling form and found the solution I was looking for to make the little beggers come back from the dead.
The solution is actually very simple, as follows:
- Start Registry Editor (Start, Run and type in regedit then click)
- Find “UpperFilters” and “LowerFilters” (and “UpperFilters.bak” “LowerFilters.bak“, if they exist) value under the following key in the registry, and delete it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
- Quit Registry Editor.
- Reboot.
You might have to re-install your CD burning software after the reboot, but this should bring your CD drives back to life, if it doesn’t, well don’t come running to me, I can’t claim to know everything out there, but a good google session normally can find you the solution to anything 😉
-Roamer
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