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Guys and Gals,
Before any of you go to the work of researching and solving this
question, let me say that I have already solved it. Or rather,
Google solved it. Seems this is a more common problem that I
thought. I had to go into regedit and delete the upperfilters value
and the lowerfilters value. Doing this brought back the DVD to "my
computer" and a simple uninstall and reinstall brought back the
CD/RW. Next time I will do the research before asking.
Dick
At 03:31 PM 8/6/2007, you wrote:
>I tried to run a CD today and the drive spun up, the lights blinked,
>but it would not start. I looked in "my computer" and neither of my
>optical drives were shown. Hoping it was as simple as a bad cable, I
>changed out the EIDE cable which fixed nothing, so I tried every
>combination hookup I could on the primary and secondary EIDE cables,
>to no avail. I looked at the device manager and both drives had the
>dreaded yellow circle with exclamation point. Under "properties", I
>got the following message: "Windows cannot start this hardware
>device because its configuration information (in the registry) is
>incomplete or damaged (code 19)". I then tried a system restore
>back to the earliest date available, as I don't know for sure when
>this problem started, but that did not fix the problem. Any ideas
>on what to do next? I would do a repair installation of XP, but
>without an optical drive, I cannot do that. The system is a P4, 2.8
>GHz, Avit V17 MB running XP Pro SP2. Thanks in advance for any help
>this great list can offer
>
>Dick
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