All CD Drives lost in Explorer but not device manager

[Guest JR]

Win2kpro - fully up to date - 4 cd drives on 2 ide channels, m and s.

Allocated P,Q,R,S letters. All of a sudden (and haven't deleted things

lately!) there are

 

NO cd/dvd roms shown in windows explorer

No cd/dvd in management. Removable storage shows drives with red x

device manager shows drives correctly

Drives work in DOS (duel boot)

 

Unistall and search new hardware rediscovers drives, but with exclamation

mark on them

 

message is

 

This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers

required for this device. (Code 31)

 

All drivers there, latest version and copied from backup in case

(cdrom.inf/cdrom.sys and a .dll)

 

Lost for ideas. Any clues please? I do NOT want to reinstall on this

complicated setup. (nothing added since drives worked!)

 

rgds

JR,

Watchet, UK

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: All CD Drives lost in Explorer but not device manager

 

This article may help.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];270008

 

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

"JR" wrote:

> Win2kpro - fully up to date - 4 cd drives on 2 ide channels, m and s.

> Allocated P,Q,R,S letters. All of a sudden (and haven't deleted things

> lately!) there are

>

> NO cd/dvd roms shown in windows explorer

> No cd/dvd in management. Removable storage shows drives with red x

> device manager shows drives correctly

> Drives work in DOS (duel boot)

>

> Unistall and search new hardware rediscovers drives, but with exclamation

> mark on them

>

> message is

>

> This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the

> drivers

> required for this device. (Code 31)

>

> All drivers there, latest version and copied from backup in case

> (cdrom.inf/cdrom.sys and a .dll)

>

> Lost for ideas. Any clues please? I do NOT want to reinstall on this

> complicated setup. (nothing added since drives worked!)

>

> rgds

> JR,

> Watchet, UK

[Guest JR]

Re: All CD Drives lost in Explorer but not device manager

 

MANY, MANY THANKS. Did not find that in my search. Worked fine and would

seem to have been an update to Clone CD - but odd, as used a registry backup

from a month ago to test (when cd's fine) and still same problem. Anyway,

fixed now and 20 hours to rebuild saved. many thanks

again........but......another problem posted ages ago with no response you

may be able to help with...

 

This win2k machine has a couple of 16bit applications (Corel 5 is one) and

when using the 'file open' command, there are no drive letters shown in the

drive box. If full path typed into file name box, finds file OK. All other

programs with 32 bit use a different file open box and are fine. Tried old

registries and no difference. Do you know what files/dll/reg entries control

this 16 bit open box??? Just a nuisance but would love to find what caused

it!!!!!

 

thanks

 

"Dave Patrick" wrote:

> This article may help.

>

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];270008

>

>

> --

>

> Regards,

>

> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

> Microsoft Certified Professional

> Microsoft MVP [Windows]

> http://www.microsoft.com/protect

>

> "JR" wrote:

> > Win2kpro - fully up to date - 4 cd drives on 2 ide channels, m and s.

> > Allocated P,Q,R,S letters. All of a sudden (and haven't deleted things

> > lately!) there are

> >

> > NO cd/dvd roms shown in windows explorer

> > No cd/dvd in management. Removable storage shows drives with red x

> > device manager shows drives correctly

> > Drives work in DOS (duel boot)

> >

> > Unistall and search new hardware rediscovers drives, but with exclamation

> > mark on them

> >

> > message is

> >

> > This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the

> > drivers

> > required for this device. (Code 31)

> >

> > All drivers there, latest version and copied from backup in case

> > (cdrom.inf/cdrom.sys and a .dll)

> >

> > Lost for ideas. Any clues please? I do NOT want to reinstall on this

> > complicated setup. (nothing added since drives worked!)

> >

> > rgds

> > JR,

> > Watchet, UK

>

[Guest Dave Patrick]

Re: All CD Drives lost in Explorer but not device manager

 

Good to hear it helps. You're welcome.

 

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Regards,

 

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft MVP [Windows]

http://www.microsoft.com/protect

 

"JR" wrote:

> MANY, MANY THANKS. Did not find that in my search. Worked fine and would

> seem to have been an update to Clone CD - but odd, as used a registry

> backup

> from a month ago to test (when cd's fine) and still same problem. Anyway,

> fixed now and 20 hours to rebuild saved. many thanks

> again........but......another problem posted ages ago with no response you

> may be able to help with...

>

> This win2k machine has a couple of 16bit applications (Corel 5 is one) and

> when using the 'file open' command, there are no drive letters shown in

> the

> drive box. If full path typed into file name box, finds file OK. All

> other

> programs with 32 bit use a different file open box and are fine. Tried

> old

> registries and no difference. Do you know what files/dll/reg entries

> control

> this 16 bit open box??? Just a nuisance but would love to find what

> caused

> it!!!!!

>

> thanks

>

> "Dave Patrick" wrote:

>

>> This article may help.

>>

>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];270008

>>

>>

>> --

>>

>> Regards,

>>

>> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.

>> Microsoft Certified Professional

>> Microsoft MVP [Windows]

>> http://www.microsoft.com/protect

>>

>> "JR" wrote:

>> > Win2kpro - fully up to date - 4 cd drives on 2 ide channels, m and s.

>> > Allocated P,Q,R,S letters. All of a sudden (and haven't deleted things

>> > lately!) there are

>> >

>> > NO cd/dvd roms shown in windows explorer

>> > No cd/dvd in management. Removable storage shows drives with red x

>> > device manager shows drives correctly

>> > Drives work in DOS (duel boot)

>> >

>> > Unistall and search new hardware rediscovers drives, but with

>> > exclamation

>> > mark on them

>> >

>> > message is

>> >

>> > This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the

>> > drivers

>> > required for this device. (Code 31)

>> >

>> > All drivers there, latest version and copied from backup in case

>> > (cdrom.inf/cdrom.sys and a .dll)

>> >

>> > Lost for ideas. Any clues please? I do NOT want to reinstall on this

>> > complicated setup. (nothing added since drives worked!)

>> >

>> > rgds

>> > JR,

>> > Watchet, UK

>>