Vista - optical drive not recognised by vista

My LG-Hitachi Gsa-4160b was working fine but does not appear on "my computer"
anymore. It is lighting up and ejecting when you press the button but Vista
seems to have stopped recognising it. On start up the it is recognised along
with the harddrive. I have tried to get Vista to update the drivers for it
but I get an error saying it cannot update them. What is wrong?

Try Method 2 ("Manually delete the registry entries") in this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us

"almidillo" <almidillo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5CCC58BC-1416-4FEC-9FCB-924EF03D8BA1@microsoft.com...
> My LG-Hitachi Gsa-4160b was working fine but does not appear on "my
> computer"
> anymore. It is lighting up and ejecting when you press the button but
> Vista
> seems to have stopped recognising it. On start up the it is recognised
> along
> with the harddrive. I have tried to get Vista to update the drivers for it
> but I get an error saying it cannot update them. What is wrong?

almidillo,

The following link may provide a solution. Follow the instructions on the
following Microsoft article to remove upper and lower filters:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929461

Sometimes this solution works, but who knows until you try it. Post back on
the results.

--
freddy


"almidillo" wrote:

> My LG-Hitachi Gsa-4160b was working fine but does not appear on "my computer"
> anymore. It is lighting up and ejecting when you press the button but Vista
> seems to have stopped recognising it. On start up the it is recognised along
> with the harddrive. I have tried to get Vista to update the drivers for it
> but I get an error saying it cannot update them. What is wrong?

freddy,
This seems to have sorted me. When I got to the file on my computer there
was only the Lower Filters available to delete, but that has done the trick.
Thanks for your help on this one. - Almidillo

"freddy" wrote:

> almidillo,
>
> The following link may provide a solution. Follow the instructions on the
> following Microsoft article to remove upper and lower filters:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/929461
>
> Sometimes this solution works, but who knows until you try it. Post back on
> the results.
>
> --
> freddy
>
>
> "almidillo" wrote:
>
> > My LG-Hitachi Gsa-4160b was working fine but does not appear on "my computer"
> > anymore. It is lighting up and ejecting when you press the button but Vista
> > seems to have stopped recognising it. On start up the it is recognised along
> > with the harddrive. I have tried to get Vista to update the drivers for it
> > but I get an error saying it cannot update them. What is wrong?

dean-dean,
I actually used Freddy`s post which is similar to yours,to solve my
problem.I went in and removed the lower filters and this has done the trick.
thanks for taking the time to assist with this problem. -Almidillo

"dean-dean" wrote:

> Try Method 2 ("Manually delete the registry entries") in this article:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/en-us
>
> "almidillo" <almidillo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5CCC58BC-1416-4FEC-9FCB-924EF03D8BA1@microsoft.com...
> > My LG-Hitachi Gsa-4160b was working fine but does not appear on "my
> > computer"
> > anymore. It is lighting up and ejecting when you press the button but
> > Vista
> > seems to have stopped recognising it. On start up the it is recognised
> > along
> > with the harddrive. I have tried to get Vista to update the drivers for it
> > but I get an error saying it cannot update them. What is wrong?
>
>