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I recently removed Adaptec's Easy CD Creator from a computer running Win2000 Professional. The computer can no longer recognize the CD drive. Device manager shows Error 19 (corrupt registry). Adaptec's web site does give a fix in the way of a registry entry, but after merging it into my registry, the drive still is not recognized. I've tried removing and reinstalling the CD drive, but that didn't work. One thing I thought about doing is to reinstall the Adaptec software by giving this computer access to another's CD drive. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I Have a friend who has on the exact same problem. He in fact has both a CD Player and a CD-RW and BOTH are not recognized. (The CD-RW is a brand new Sony and was working fine on Win98). He's downloaded a new IDE/ATA patch from ASUS. If that doesn't work, he's going to flash the BIOS. If it works, I'll let you know. Please post any other solutions that you find.
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I am having same problem. I have both a cd-rom and a sony cd-r/w that uses adaptec sw...any help will be appreciated.
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PThompson replied to my e-mail requesting how they fixed their problems-- "What he did was remove one of the two CD Rom drives he had, and then reinstalled Windows 2000 and it worked. His problem was mainly some kind of conflict between the two drives apparently. Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance."
I haven't tried this yet, but I do know that Code 19 error is separate from the Code 34 problem (mainly dealing with MS Windows Media Player 7 Adaptec patch) , don't waste your time and merge the registry patch that is at Microsoft's Knowledge base--all it does is corrupt the whole registry so W2K doesn't boot--for the problem we are having at least.
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http://the-predator.tripod.com/dell/nt.htm#20-9 has common problems with W2K and Easy CD, I thought this was the same registry file I had tried before but maybe there were two
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I got mine fixed up just now without doing anything all too radical, after messing around with things for a few hours I first tried to uninstall adaptec's plugin for WMP7 rebooted, nothing had changed it was still there, I then uninstalled the whole WMP7, rebooted and my CDs are back, hope this helps!
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The following message was posted by Adam in reply to this problem. I have found that it fixed my Windows 2000 CD problem even though it had nothing to do with Adaptec's software (I was installing a modem). Just thought I would pass it on to you. Hope this helps.
Name: adam
Date: April 18, 2001 at 15:30:20 Pacific
Subject: CD Drives disappeared, corrupted registr
Reply:
What precipitated this disapearance? Did you do anything with Adaptec Easy CD Creator?
I just had a disapearing drive problem myself, and it was EZ CD Creator's fault. If that's the case, then I have the solution:1. Go into regedit and find this key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
2. delete UpperFilters and LowerFilters
3. Close regedit and rebootNot sure this will solve your problem since your device manager error is different than the one I had, but if the problem has anything to do with Adaptec software, then it might just save the day for you.
To answer your other question, reinstalling windows over the current version would not auto-format your drive, but then again, it might also not solve your problem. You should back stuff up to a zip disks or something.
Hope that helps.
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