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CD ROM drive not recognised
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Posted December 11, 2012 at 10:22AM
Laptop not recognising CD ROM drive. Inserted CD into drive, it spins but not loading. All USBs OK. Speccy software states NO optical drives !!
OS XP Prof SP3 PC HP Omnibook xe4100
Thank you
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Posted December 11, 2012 at 11:02AM
No CD/DVD or CD-ROM access is missing error Code 19, Code 31, Code 32, Code 39, or Code 41 Try this if the optical drives are not appearing in My Computer or Device Manager. (This is sometimes caused by the removal of Roxio or other writing software.)
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/XP_CD-DVD-Fix.zip Download XP_CD-DVD-Fix.zip and save this file to your hard drive. Navigate to where you saved it and double click the file to extract the contents. Locate the EXE file you extracted and double click it. A confirmation dialog will appear when the script is done. You may need to reboot for the change to take effect. This utility is only intended for Windows® XP, but also appears to work for Vista and Windows 7. You may need Administrator level access to use this utility. If you do not have Administrator level access, the program will say it is finished, but will not have made any changes.
Similar fixes http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/ works for W7 Vista or XP http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip
or manual fix Run regedit and navigate to registry key HKEYLOCALMACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\ {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}. Highlight it and in the right pane, find the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters values. Highlight each one in turn, right click and delete them. Close regedit and restart the computer. If in doubt make a restore point before making changes.
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Posted December 11, 2012 at 11:13AM
FRUIT BAT
I did notice the above . I tried manual option but no joy. Will now try one of the others. Thank you.
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Posted December 11, 2012 at 11:40AM
Tried another option. No joy.
Will try again tonight.
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Posted December 11, 2012 at 12:46PM
Some more things to try:-
Unplug drive and refit to remake connections
Look in device manager unistall and Scan for new hardware to reinstall CD roms
Also a possibility on an old machine the drive has failed
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Posted December 11, 2012 at 8:11PM
Hello FRUIT BAT.
I had a few other issues with this old laptop.
I did a complete reinstall. This action solved three other problems.
Thank you for taking the time to respond.
Kind regards.
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