XP doesn't see CDRW but I can boot from it

Hello everyone,

I have noticed the CDRW (Asus CRW-4832as) isn't working in my 2 year old Compaq Presario SR1103WM. It has a yellow exclamation mark by it, and i have tried numorous things to remedy the problem. I've followed all the steps on the website, and still it doesn't work.


So as a desperate man, i ask of you intelligent people to aid me to a solution, that hopefully doesn't end in replacing it.

 

Bit of a long shot but how about checking if you can see it if you go to Disk Management in admin tools. If it's there and you right click it, see if you can get the properties box to open. Then see if it says Use this device (enable).

* edit. Have you installed any software that might have changed the drive letter ? Something called DLA (drive letter access) comes to mind, but I can't remember what happens with it. My computer got messed up once with that, and both the CD drives disappeared.

 

Try uninstalling the current drivers and rebooting the computer. Let windows detect the drivers automatically. See if that will work.

 

Yes i have tried all of those suggestions and still nothing, after i delete the drivers and let windows detect it automaticly it simply comes back with the yellow exclamation point. any further help on this matter would be much appreciated

 

I think you can try getting a newer driver for the cd driver or the firmware i think :S

 

Did you do all this at the Hp website? Looks excessive but just thought I'd put it up here in case you were referring to a different site.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...146&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=424182&lang=en

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Did you get any automatic updates or add new software? This happened to me once but it had to do with a WMP update that included Adaptec drivers and was years ago.

 

Yes, that is the site i was reffereing to. Also i haven't installed any new software in my system. Any body else got an idea, or is this just toast and i need to buy a new one?

 

Well i did go into to delete the upper and lower filters, but inside that file was only a lower filter and so i did delete that and nothing happend.