From: relic211@cjb.net   
      
   "joop g"  wrote in message   
   news:4c9e539f$0$41103$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...   
   > relic wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "joop g"  wrote in message   
   >> news:4c9e257f$0$41112$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...   
   >>> Willem van den Blink wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:43:24 +0200, Willem van den Blink   
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 08:28:30 -0400, "Ben Myers"   
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>See if you have a restore point that predates the problem.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Interesting idea, I didn't think of that (never used restore points).   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Result: the drive is ok and working in an earlier environment, so it   
   >>>>>must be a software problem.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>In the mean time (as a result of another helpful post I bought a new   
   >>>>>cdrom-drive, now sata and not ide.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>So I hope (if cannot solve the software problem) that de sata   
   >>>>>crdomdrive will work.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Thanks to all and any more suggestions are appreciated.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>Willem.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Solved!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Registry   
   >>>> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/Currentcontrolset/Control/Class/   
   >>>> {4d36e965-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Removed "UpperFilters" and "LowerFilters"   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Restarted and EUREKA!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Willem.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> (remove s from wblinks for email reply)   
   >>>   
   >>> I am flabbergasted. Your CD-ROM is not working, and you remove two (in   
   >>> my   
   >>> opinion totally unrelated) registry keys, and it works!   
   >>   
   >> That 'fix' dates back to XP's original release... among others.   
   >   
   > Okay, but where can I find any info about it? I mean, you regularly read   
   > questions like "xxx does not work" and then the answer is "change key yyy   
   > in the registry into zzz". And then I am left wondering: how do these   
   > people (including, presumably, you) know this? I am not clairvoyant, and I   
   > would be quite willing to RTFM, but I do not know about any FM.   
      
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