CD ROM refuses to enable

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My computer has a DVD drive and a separate CD-RW. Up until recently
everything was working fine but I have noticed that WinXP is no longer
showing my CD-RW drive in Explorer. I've had a good look around these
newsgroups and have already tried the registry fix which hasn't worked for me.

The weird thing is the BIOS detects the drive as does device manager- albeit
with a big red cross over it and whenever I try to enable the drive in device
manager it says it can't but does not say why not!! This is what is says in
Deice manager:
--
This device is disabled. (Code 22)

Click Enable Device to enable this device.
--
But when i try to enable it just says 'windows was unable to enable this
device'

When I look at Disk Management (in Computer Management) only the DVD drive
is shown, no sign whatsoever of my CD-RW.

Can anyone help me please??!!
Many Thanks!

 

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"Steve McWee" <Steve McWee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AB50FD88-CF65-4A27-A683-9F45F8542E0B@microsoft.com...
> My computer has a DVD drive and a separate CD-RW. Up until recently
> everything was working fine but I have noticed that WinXP is no longer
> showing my CD-RW drive in Explorer. I've had a good look around these
> newsgroups and have already tried the registry fix which hasn't worked for
me.
>
> The weird thing is the BIOS detects the drive as does device manager-
albeit
> with a big red cross over it and whenever I try to enable the drive in
device
> manager it says it can't but does not say why not!! This is what is says
in
> Deice manager:
> --
> This device is disabled. (Code 22)
>
> Click Enable Device to enable this device.
> --
> But when i try to enable it just says 'windows was unable to enable this
> device'
>
> When I look at Disk Management (in Computer Management) only the DVD drive
> is shown, no sign whatsoever of my CD-RW.
>
> Can anyone help me please??!!
> Many Thanks!

In past instances of this type, uninstalling the drive in
Device Manager, rebooting and letting it be redetected
has worked for some users.

Let us know what happens.

 

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absolutely fabulous, worked like a charm.

many many thanks!!

 

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"Steve McWee" <SteveMcWee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:52409539-E47E-4591-A740-2E44B2F06423@microsoft.com...
> absolutely fabulous, worked like a charm.
>
> many many thanks!!

Welcome.

Now, if we only knew HOW optical drives get
disabled "on their own" in the first place....

 

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"V Green" wrote:

>
> "Steve McWee" <Steve McWee@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AB50FD88-CF65-4A27-A683-9F45F8542E0B@microsoft.com...
> > My computer has a DVD drive and a separate CD-RW. Up until recently
> > everything was working fine but I have noticed that WinXP is no longer
> > showing my CD-RW drive in Explorer. I've had a good look around these
> > newsgroups and have already tried the registry fix which hasn't worked for
> me.
> >
> > The weird thing is the BIOS detects the drive as does device manager-
> albeit
> > with a big red cross over it and whenever I try to enable the drive in
> device
> > manager it says it can't but does not say why not!! This is what is says
> in
> > Deice manager:
> > --
> > This device is disabled. (Code 22)
> >
> > Click Enable Device to enable this device.
> > --
> > But when i try to enable it just says 'windows was unable to enable this
> > device'
> >
> > When I look at Disk Management (in Computer Management) only the DVD drive
> > is shown, no sign whatsoever of my CD-RW.
> >
> > Can anyone help me please??!!
> > Many Thanks!
>
> In past instances of this type, uninstalling the drive in
> Device Manager, rebooting and letting it be redetected
> has worked for some users.
>
> Let us know what happens.
>
>
> thanks ,uninstalled and re booted.Works fine now.