Vista Tutorial - DVD/CD Rom Driver

Slimtype DVD A DS8A1H ATA Device

Am having the exact same problem. As Murphy's law perscribes Im just a month off my Dell warrenty and **** like this starts happening.
My device manager shows no Cd-rom and system info shows:


Drive Not Available
Description CD-ROM Drive
Media Loaded No
Media Type UNKNOWN
Name HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GSA-T11N ATA Device
Manufacturer (Standard CD-ROM drives)
Status Error
Transfer Rate 563.56 kbytes/sec
SCSI Target ID Not Available
PNP Device ID IDE\CDROMHL-DT-ST_DVD+-RW_GSA-T11N_______________A102____\5&31012DB&0&0.0.0


I could really use some help before I go postal on Dell and my Laptop Inspirion.
Paleeeease help me.

Just Start > Run > Regedit

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class

Under Class, click {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}.
In the right pane, right-click Upper Filters, and then click Delete.
Click yes when prompted to delete the registry value.
In the right pane, right-click Lower Filters, and then click Delete.
Click yes when prompted to delete the registry value.
Quit Registry Editor. To do this, click Exit on the File menu.
Restart the computer.

thanks for your help, got the same problem, now it works!

Amazing absolutely amazing! How do you people find these answers?
Thank you so much.
I bow in your presence.
But really thanks for the help, all is working again.

Many thanks! This also worked for my Acer laptop that runs Windows XP. It's great to hear CDs again!

drmr

So its solved? if so can you click on the red triangle and type solved

thanks

K

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