DVD drive not showing.

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wedoe21

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This is what it says under hardware manager.

"Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

I have a pioneer dvdrw DVR-106D. Of course the pioneer site does not have any drivers that i can see just firmware updates. http://wwwbsc.pioneer.co.jp/product-e/ibs/device_e/dev00001r_e.html

I did download the firmware update which would not install. The installer said it could not find the device.

Auto update would not find anything either.

Its weird one day I watched a movie on the drive. Then a couple days later the drive wouldn't load.

I did have this happen one time before and when i reinstalled windows everything worked fine.

Its a software issue. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help.
 
I tried loading up DAEMON tools and mounting a couple virtual drives. Same error. Is there some main drive file that could have been deleted or altered and is preventing any dvd or "dvd" drive from loading?
 
You say it was working a few days ago, so try going back to a windows restore point from that time if you still have one there. Also try to remember if youve installed anything recently that might have cause this to happen.

If you have a lot of different CD/DVD burning software, that could be why. I know windows used to only allow one type of burning software installed, although I dont think that applies anymore, it could be a similar issue of driver conflicts caused by installing them. Give that a shot if the restore doesnt work.
 
So the drive is detected in the BIOS but not in windows? If so, you can try a repair install, if the restore doesn't work. Though, first I'd try re-installing the chipset/IDE/SATA mobo drivers.
 
Reinstalling the chipset and raid drivers didnt help. Asus's website is stupid slow by the way. Hmm reinstall time?
 
Give it a shot. If you got a spare hdd try doing a reinstall on that.

It would seem like a waste if you had the same problem on a fresh installation of Windows. All that moving files around can be a pain in the ass.
 
I run in to this problem a lot more than you would think, here's the MS fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

Try to delete the upper and lower filters in the registry, if you only have one of those, just delete that one. Likely your burning software will not work anymore, and you will need to reinstall it.

A reinstall would also probably fix it, but this is much quicker/simpler.
 
"I run in to this problem a lot more than you would think, here's the MS fix:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

Try to delete the upper and lower filters in the registry, if you only have one of those, just delete that one. Likely your burning software will not work anymore, and you will need to reinstall it.

A reinstall would also probably fix it, but this is much quicker/simpler. "

Success. Thanks. This also fixed my BSOD when shutting down problem. Thanks again.
 
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