DVD & CR burner errors

[irrelevant1]

Please help! I am trying to access my DvD-Rom and CD burner drives but they're not displayed in the Windows Explorer. I checked the device manager and they are both giving me the same error: "Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware but cannot find the hardware device. (Code 41)"
I am sure you can see where this becomes a problem.

..BTW, I checked the ever-so helpful Tech Support section of XP, and it says to contact the manufacturer.

Please give me any advice you got.

ThnX

[LPMiller]

swap out the cables. Also, try one drive solo, then the other, as one of them could be bad and screwing up both drives on the IDE port.

[seqiro]

Try running this registry patch: cdgone.zip. Details on this can be found at http://www.aumha.org/a/xpcdz.htm#problems. Be sure to read the readme file first. You might need to reinstall your CD-R software after running it.

As always you should make backups before you edit the registry unless you are reeeeeeeeeally sure of what you are doing.