Hi, I recently uninstalled a burning program. When I restarted, Windows failed to detect my DVD-rw drive. The bios can detect it but Windows does not. I have tried System Restore (rolling back to a couple of points) and Windows XP still does not recognize the drive. I have restored to a previous point, but the drive is not detected. I have restored to an even previous system point, but the drive is still not recognized. Device Manager said that the driver is corrupt or missing. I have tried rollback on the driver but it did not have a back-up. Of course I cannot update the drive via CD-ROM and Windows can't find a better driver than the one already in there. Hardware Specs: SSBG1 small form factor (current bios) Windows XP Home SP2 (up from SP1) 758mb RAM pc2700 Drive in question: Samsung DVD+-R/RW TS-H552U Thanks for your input

i used to have that same problem back then, but its really a easy fix look unistall the drive from device manager after you unistall it windows will detected again as if it was new hardware and will install it. but if windows doesn't see it after you unistall it then open your computer up and disconnect any cables connected to the drive DVD+-R/RW wait like one minute and then connect everything back the same way as it was, then reboot and this time windows will automatically detect the drive and automatically install it for sure. write back if you have any more questions Mess with the best, die like the rest!!!! PLEASE WRITER BACK IF MY ADVICE WAS HELPFUL

Hi, I uninstalled it from Device Manager and turned off the computer for about a couple of minutes. I came back and opened up the computer and disconnected the parallel cable and the power cable running from the DVD-rw drive. I left it like that for a couple minutes while I got a sandwich. I turned on the computer and made sure that the drive is still not being detected. It is not. So I proceeded to turn off the computer again. Then I disconnected all the external cables from the computer (power, Ethernet, mice, keyboard, etc.) and left it for a minute. I reconnected all the external cables (power, Ethernet, mice, keyboard, etc.) and reconnected the parallel and power cables into the DVD-rw drive. I turned on the computer and windows detected the drive BUT it still did not show up on My Computer and Roxio Easy CD Creator does not recognize the drive nor does Nero nor anything else (i.e. it does not exist anywhere apparently). POST detects the drive but when I came back to Device Manager, it still brought up the same problems as before: drive is not being detected by Windows XP nor any other program. On another note, I use Alcohol 52% and my 2 virtual drives disappeared too. In Device Manager, it is listed as having a problem. I took off the virtual drives before I turned off the PC. Any suggestions?

maybe a reinstall of windows if that doesn't work then you will probably have to do a clean install of windows or the problems are just gona keep on going. if you have any questions on doing a clean install of windows or a reinstall of windows just write back. Mess with the best, die like the rest!!!! PLEASE WRITER BACK IF MY ADVICE WAS HELPFUL

Try this.If you are comfortable editing the registry: Create a Restore point and back up the registry.Open regedit. Look for; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\SetControlClass. Key name: {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Value Data:[Delete all value data from upper and lower filters] Note-Do not delete the key or the multi-string values. Delete only the data values. Exit regedit and reboot. http://computervitals.com/

Hi, I have tried to update firmware of the Samsung TS-H522U us04 because I thought it might help, but whaddayaknow! When I tried to run sfdnwin.exe, it did not detect the DVD-rw drive. I forgot about that, hehe. Any other suggestions other than a complete Windows re-install?

It also may be in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\SetControlClass001 or 002 or 003 http://computervitals.com/