Re: CD/RW & DVD Drives not responding

Thanks for the quick response.
No Upperfilters or Lowerfilters values present in the referenced key
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318})

I should also point out that this is now a dual-boot ME & XP system. Did a
clean install on a new system partition.

EZCD Creator not present on XP drive as of yet.

"AmericanTechie" <nomail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:um8Mc2W9FHA.3908@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Lorne wrote:
>> I have recently upgraded to XP from ME. Worked fine prior to installing
>> all Windows Updates outstanding. Now, both optical drives no longer work.
>> When I insert ANY CD (programs, data or music), same result:
>> Drive spins for a few seconds and stops
>> No CD icon next to cursor
>> Navigate to drive in Windows Explorer, shows drive letters, no file
>> information
>> Right click, no dialog box, Explorer hangs and have to force re-boot with
>> a power off shutdown.
>> Drives:
>> Show in Windows Explorer
>> Don't know if burning works, playing/running does not. No burning
>> software installed yet. (Can't CD drives don't work)
>> Have performed the following:
>> (1)Uninstalled both drives through Device Manager.
>> (2)Re-installed both drives after re-boot. No driver installation
>> problems. Reads all hardware details fine.
>> (3)Reset Services| Shell Hardware Detection to Automatic. (Path to
>> executable: D:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs)
>> (4) Downloaded and ran "autorunenable.reg", "XP_CD-DVD-Fix.exe",
>> "AutoFix.exe." (from Kellys-Korner.com and dougknox.com)
>> Still no change. I have numerous programs to re-install and am SEVERELY
>> stuck.
>> Any help/ideas greatly appreciated.
>> Lorne
>>
>>
>
> Old Versions of EZ CD Creator from Roxio has caused this type of thing to
> happen. Check your Add/Remove programs to see if it is listed. If it is,
> then it should have been removed before installation.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060
>
> This article is related to the problem but it requires going into the
> registry. I am not sure if a better fix has been found by now as this is
> a pretty old problem. Otherwise get back to us if this is not the case.
>
> --
> http://www.americantechie.com


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Installing Fedora without a CDROM: my HOWTO
    ... Here is my HOWTO on installing Linux from a USB drive, ... disk or USB key rather than a CDROM boot disk. ... Put auxillary files (special drivers, post setup install config, ... This way I can mount any number of hard drives in the ...
    (Fedora)
  • Re: Booting Vista from external drive violate MS EULA?
    ... of OS install to diff drives. ... Meaning this boots off usb vista, if there is another hard drive ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.vista.general)
  • Re: XP HOME BOOT FAILURE
    ... I did check both hard drives using the setup CD ROM that came with the new ... downloaded and updated the driver for the original 80 GB Maxtor hard drive. ... > If you run a repair install as I initially described, ... >>> on, follow the screens. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.accessibility)
  • Re: Quiet general purpose + music laptops?
    ... Without being able to convert a distro into a bootable USB flash /SD Card, ... So I would recommend all distro mainters look at their netbook ... Install gparted on your machine using synaptic. ... As the pocket drives cost only 40 pounds, ...
    (uk.comp.os.linux)
  • Trouble installing Redhat 9.0 on Promise FastTrak100 TX2 RAID controller, RAID1 mirrored - solved
    ... a computer with mirrored 120 GB IDE drives on a Promise ... installed the Promise driver for Windows, ... refuses to boot to the Linux boot partition, ... The next time I tried the install, ...
    (comp.os.linux.hardware)