The Cdralw2k service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified.

Did you remove Adaptec software? Applies to Adaptec Updated drivers for the Adaptec CD-Recording Plug-In for Whistler Personal and Whistler Professional. The driver files that need to be updated are CDR4_2K.SYS and CDRALW2K.SYS. These can be obtained from Adaptec. For more information about drivers, visit the Adaptec Web Site at: http://www.adaptec.com/support/advisor/cdrupdates/ Web addresses can change, so you might not be able to connect to the Web site or sites mentioned here.

The Cdralw2k service failed to start due to the following error: the service is forbidden or other related service failed. In fact i have no any cdrom in my computor.

Dear Sir, I'm using win-nt workstation. I'm getting the following error in my machine. " The Cdralw2k service failed to start due to the following error: The system cannot find the file specified." What is the possible reason for this.

**READ THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY, THIS WILL SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM** Let me know if this helps!! Most times the drivers of EasyCD and Nero can cause conflicts. (This is typically caused by lower level system drivers associated with writing UDF. If everybody is following the rules as defined by Microsoft, this should not be the case). Unistalling Ez CD Creator is one solution however the Ez CD Creator unistaller leaves behind several files which still causes problems to Nero (delete all following files, if present) (In ECDC 4.xx releases there are separate installs for ECDC and DirectCD. If you uninstall ECDC in anything before ECDC 5.0, you will not uninstall DirectCD. This is a separate uninstall process which explains why you see the files listed below and still listed in the registry. This would be the case for any Roxio application that is still left installed (i.e Take Two or DirectCD) : - CDR4VSD.SYS (Used by ECDC and DirectCD in Windows NT4) - CDR4_2K.SYS (Used by ECDC and DirectCD in Windows W2K) - CDRALVSD.SYS (Used by ECDC and DirectCD in Windows NT4 (older versions) - CDRALW2k.SYS (Used by ECDC and DirectCD in Windows W2K) - CDRALWNT.SYS (Used by ECDC and DirectCD in Windows NT4) - CDRALVSD.SYS (duplicate) - CDUDFRW.SYS (This does not exist in NT4/W2K. There is only a CDUDFRW.VxD used by DirectCD in 9x) - CDUDF.SYS (Used by DirectCD in Windows NT4/W2K) - CDRPWD.SYS (Used by DirectCD in Windows NT4/W2K) which rested in the directory C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS and the file CDR4VSD.DLL in the directory C:\WinNT\System32 and restart Windows. Additional: When the Adaptec software is uninstalled the registry is not reverted to use the Windows "cdrom.sys". You have to edit the registry to stop the Adaptec driver after uninstall. The critical keys that the software leaves behind after being uninstalled are in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SyStem\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-0 87002BE10318} In this section you will find two keys called "UpperFilters" & "LowerFilters" and you will need to delete both of these keys and reboot to restore Win2K to the default CD driver. You should also search for other keys containing "cdralw2k" and "cdr4_2K" and delete these then delete these two files AFTER the reboot. Note you cannot delete the references to these in "ENUM" as they are generated from the class driver, but they will not be there after the reboot. (This is the same issue as described above. It would be dangerous to delete the whole upper and lower filter keys if somebody else had their drivers installed in this location. In W2K it is not a good idea to only delete the upper and lower filter keys. You must also delete the Service registry entries and the drivers themselves. Again, this will be handled if ALL of the Roxio applications are uninstalled (i.e ECDC, DCD, and Take Two). In addition there is an article in the MS knowledge base about this..http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q270008

Response Number 4 Thanks, this one did help and I did use Nero 5.5 on two systems the IBM NetVista 40 and the HP VL 800 SCSI and it wipe out both CDROM and the Burner on Both Systems. This solution did restore the CDROM and Burner on the IBM by deleting the Upper and Lower Filters and cdralw2k" and "cdr4_2K. Thank you