What Do You Mean You Lost My Cdrom?
May 11, 2005
I'm kinda new to XP seeing that i'm a mac user only but my parents bought a PC with XP so i'm stuck using it sometimes, well my problem is all of a sudden i go to use the computer and the computer can';t find either of the CD ROMS, the DVD-RW or the CD-ROm, I went into device manager and it has the "!" beside both, so i reinstalled the drivers for both and got something to the effect of "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)", i've tried every trick i know but like i said i'm not good with windows, so any advice is much appricated, THe dvd-rw is an Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-104 and the other is ASUS CD-S400/A.
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Aug 8, 2007
This is a NEC ND-3520AW. Worked fine until ? I don't think I installed anything or saw any other contributing factor.
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2. I can write to the drive on a CDR or CDRW fine using Nero.
3. I can boot from the drive using an Ubuntu or other boot disk.
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