Aero
3/09/2003
11:03:46
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RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
I installed Fireburner (cd burning software) and the same thing happened to me. I am on XP also, however I do not have upper or lower filters in my registry. I tried a system restore, which is what compaq tech support told me to do, but it did not solve the problem, only deleted everything I have been working on for weeks.. Anyone got a fix for this?? tia
Aero
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Chalky
3/11/2003
02:19:18
| THIS MIGHT WORK FOR SOME PEOPLE
Registry clean-up tool from Nero.
ftp://ftp6.nero.com/RegistryChecker.exe
Gotta go. Haere tatou ki te whare waipiro!
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dave
3/15/2003
04:58:28
| RE: this might work...
YES ! It works.
my cd-r/dvd on my notebook was disappeared with a code error nr. 41. There was no "upperfilters" or "lowerfilters" value in register. Afer running registrychecker.exe my device was alive and kickin'. Happiness !. Tanx chalky
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spurlack
3/19/2003
11:42:12
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Well, I was afraid to do this, but it kinda worked. I never edited the registry and was advised never to do it. Man was I scared. This is a brand new machine!
My cd and cd/rw just disappeared today. I have no idea how. I tried the system retore option in XP, going back a week, but still no cd drives.
After a search, I found this message board and this thread. Wringing my hands, I found the lower filters file and deleted it. No upper filter file found. After rebooting, the cd/rw was back (YAY!) but the cd is still missing.
Now what?
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User
3/20/2003
02:27:15
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
hihi my fren's comp cannot detect the CD ROM drive & tried this method but both of our comps dun have the "class" root in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
anybody can teach us what 2 do now...? =S
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Rockin_Kockin
3/23/2003
03:00:44
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
if your cd-rom is in bios but not in windows it is most probably a conflict or a IDE connector fault. Even if it is in the bios it still can be faulty. Try the cd-rom in another IDE connector or if you dont have another one, just go buy an IDE card like me. it works
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Rich
6/07/2003
23:51:21
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Got the same error after installing NTI 6 Plat. The fix worked great! How the hell did you find this? I don't muck with the registry but would love to understand it.
Thanks a ton!
Rich
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tenn9fan
6/14/2003
17:58:03
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
THANK YOU!!!
I cannot think of why my CD-RW and DVD stopped working. But, whatever the reason they are back up again.
THANK YOU SO MUCH
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blacklite098
6/19/2003
16:50:21
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Hello, I have the same problem. Although, I didn't install anything.
I did put in a new video card, three weeks ago, and all of a sudden, a few days ago, the CDR/CDRW drive disappeared. The power works for it (it opens and closes), but it's not in explorer, and it doesn't read disks... I don't think it's the video card cuz it's been working fine up until a few days ago...
What's the problem??? Thanks.
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UnderGarth
6/19/2003
19:27:05
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
"Message:
Hello, I have the same problem. Although, I didn't install anything.
I did put in a new video card, three weeks ago, and all of a sudden, a few days ago, the CDR/CDRW drive disappeared. The power works for it (it opens and closes), but it's not in explorer, and it doesn't read disks... I don't think it's the video card cuz it's been working fine up until a few days ago...
What's the problem??? Thanks."
I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM! HELP!
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Paulo
6/21/2003
08:17:45
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
woot!
worked here. nothing to do with ez cd creator. in fact, i have no ideia why it happened! :| thank you and google.
if only i can fix the other problems xp throws at me... somehow ME worked better for me...
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aRound
6/28/2003
03:43:12
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Kudos Chalky for the fix and Charles for the layman instructions! Can I buy you guys a round? For anyone esle like me that didn't find the LowerFilters & UpperFilters where Charles suggests, just do a keyword search for "filters" in the Registry Editor until you find ones that go with the dysfunctional unit. I also had to go into Edit, Permissions to give myself authority to delete the files.
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chuck
7/16/2003
13:07:24
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Thank you all - I was w/out my cd for about 6 months and about ready to throw this damn thing against the wall.
But now i'm HAPPY! :)
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2ndRound
7/30/2003
03:55:40
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Ridiculous intelligence displayed here. I'll buy the second round thats for sure. Many many thanks!
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Kaiser
8/08/2003
10:42:20
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
thanks Chalky...tried the MS fix which didn't work, then found your RegistyChecker link after 2 days and now I'm up and running.
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yoojeong
8/18/2003
04:03:07
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Hi im having so much trouble..
I installed insektor and my cd/r is disappeared..
Someone said go to registry but i dont know what it is..
Can you pretty please help me...
:(
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johnnytrident
8/19/2003
03:58:38
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Chalky you are the man!!
Hours of stuffing about trying to fix not seeing my CD Drives after Easy CD Creator 5 installation, fixed by your registry suggestion.
CHALKY FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!
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Marc
8/25/2003
12:59:40
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
The registry hack worked for me. I had a Compaq EVO with a CD-ROM, and a Plextor PX-504 UF . Thanks :)
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Lee
9/14/2003
07:06:48
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Hi,
I have the same problem, my CDRW (and sound card) have disappeared. I have checked the registry, and like many others dont have upper or lower filters present. I also downloaded the registry checker above and that didn't seem to do anything. Am I using it incorrectly? I have even done a system restore to before the problems - the upper and lower filters were present then - but removing them made no difference! Please help, I'm facing having to do a reistall and have no cd drive to bsck up all my information!
Many thanks,
Lee.
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pito
9/22/2003
11:15:56
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Guys I have the same problem my dvd/cdrw is nowhere 2 be found.
I try deleteing the lower filter and it didn't work.
If anybody took care this problem another way please letme know, I'm even considering reistalling windows xp. But it won't even read that.... Please HELP, Thanks in advanced
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Rockin_Kockin
9/25/2003
19:46:28
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
if deleting lower filters dont work, it could be the IDE connector. If the IDE connector is 'faulty', the CD-ROM may still be in the bios, and not in Windows. Try switching the CD-ROM from one IDE connector to another, or try using different IDE cables.
NOTE: this method will not work if the problem came from any type of software.
Cheers Rockin_Kockin
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pito
9/25/2003
19:54:53
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Rockin_Kockin
Thanks BUDD, problem fix I did a search in edit/find and I found the upperlift I delete both of them. Reboot. Bingo
Thanks 4 the Help...
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GreenGiant
9/25/2003
20:35:16
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Hey,
I have been without my CD and CD-RW drives for about 4 months now. I can't find anything that will fix it. How can i fix this??? Someone please HELP!!!!!
GG
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pito
9/25/2003
21:19:22
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
DO THIS
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Control
Class
{4D36E965-E325 -11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Once you have opened the last folder, you should see two keys on the right hand side ("Upperfilters" and "Lowerfilters") which you may select and then delete by right clicking and selecting "Delete".
Alternatively, you could search for these keys instead of manually navigating to their locations. To do so, go Edit>Find and type either "Upperfilters" or "Lowerfilters" in the search field.
AFTER ALL THIS JUST REBOOT, AND THE NEW FILE WOULD DL AUTOMATICALLY best of luck
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JWT
10/05/2003
14:37:53
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
This problem seems to be occuring way to often to be just a random occurrence...I had this problem last week on my home computer...and then again today with my laptop...
This fix is the only thing that worked...problem is when you type "winxp cdrom not working" :) in a search engine then finding this article among the many others was a challenge...
Thanks a bunch...
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Mike S.
11/09/2003
20:27:29
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
The registry checker worked perfectly. I had been working on restoring my cd-rom and dvd-r drive for hours. Thanks so much!
Mike
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Asim
11/16/2003
05:19:07
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Same thing happened with me, I reinstall xp pro with sp1 and my CDRW gone, the DVDROM is working fine. first I tried to lookup those values(upperfiler/lowerfiler) but I couldn't find it, then I used the registrychecker.exe that also didn't help me, since then I have re-install my xp hundreds of times, even I try to install xp without my CDRW and after installation i put the CDRW back but no help, xp is detecting creative CDRW but its not showing me any file in explorer. You guys are gurus, plz. advise me something too, plz. I am going crazy on this problem now. thanks alot.
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blklvm
11/25/2003
23:58:24
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
I'm having the same problem. But I'm on Windows ME & I cant find the lowerfilter to delete it. I have tried everything. Can someone please help me with this, any other options?
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Melissa
12/14/2003
01:29:12
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
This is what has happened to me. I had Adaptec on my Windows XP computer and was using it for the past month or so. Everything was working fine. So now I go to make a CD and the software has disappeared and so has my CD-RW! It says it's working properly but it cannot read any CD's.
Anyways, I have tried everything that was mentioned in this forum to no avail. I only found the lowerfilters - I deleted it. Nothing happened - still cannot find my CD-ROM.
Please can anyone suggest anything else?? I'm at my wits end!!
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Jack Schidt
1/03/2004
18:00:38
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Installing the "HighMAT Extension to MS XP CD Writing Wizard for XP Professional" from Microsoft Update on top of a previously installed version of "Adaptec CD Creator 4.02D_D5" from the "Dell Application Restoration Disk Version 6.0" caused both CDRom Drives to vanish from a box we were working on.
We even reinstalled the OS - did a repair installation - to no avial. Finally I did a Google search and found this fix.
Thanks man!
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YM
1/06/2004
22:28:56
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
i deleted both upperfilter and lowerfilter as instructed but my cd rom still disappear after restart my notebook. please give more advise or i would have to reformat , thanks a lot...
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YM
1/07/2004
02:56:14
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
i tried to run registry checker too but problem did not solved...
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trouble
1/11/2004
12:13:55
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
we what about someone like myself who is on windows 98se & cant use registry Checker.exe because it is only for XP ? I've done Registry First aid, I dont kno if thats the same but it didnt help.. can someone Help ME????
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trouble
1/15/2004
15:06:32
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
^^ can anyone tell me what to do with windows 98???
I'm having the SAME PROBLEM
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Sabby
2/05/2004
01:14:25
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Click on Start/Run. Type in "Regedit" and click ok. In the Registry Editor, click on Edit/ Find for the "upperfilters" and delete it. Repeat the same for lower filters. Restart the computer. Bingo - It Works
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Dave
2/18/2004
16:11:24
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
I had the same problem. RegistryChecker.exe fixed it. I'm back in business. Thanks to whomever found this one.
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Darkwoods
2/24/2004
04:39:43
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
I've done what you've instructed, no luck the registry checker did not work on this computer as it is a clean xp install. same as others can access the cd, but will not read anything on the cd, and will not boot off a retail cd no matter how i set the bios.....frustrating....
and still no cd
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TaliesaN
4/02/2004
21:08:04
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
OK - When I tried the fix listed here it didn't do squat for me
So I took Chaulky's advice and downloaded and tried the Nero Registry Cleaner, alas this as well did nothing
Here's what fixed it for me - you will need to know someone running Win XP and have a burner - go to their C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder and copy the cdralw2k.sys and cdrom.sys - take em home copy them over to your C:\Windows\System32\Drivers folder (IMPORTANT : if there is another copy of the cdralw2k.sys i.e. : CDralW2K.sys - back it up elsewhere then remove it)
Hope that helps some of you out
Techie in Barrie
TaliesaN
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sweety
4/16/2004
18:31:41
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Control
Class
{4D36E965-E325 -11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
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Bob
4/18/2004
05:41:13
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
Thank you SO much...you saved me hours at the very least...I'm just glad I found this thread :)
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Serge
4/28/2004
14:34:32
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
I have XP GOLD 5.5 and i can't see my CDROM.the error code is code 19 in the register basis.I need help.
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El Poderosa
4/29/2004
16:10:09
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
When I have a hardware problem, I usually spend weeks trying to find a fix to the problem, only to end up re-formatting! This fix is unbelievable!! I'm running W2K and it was Power DVD that b*ggered both my drives. 2 mins with this fix and everything is back to perfect! Thanks Chalky
PS. Serge, mine was error code 19 too, go back and try the prementioned fix and try it.
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SR
5/17/2004
15:37:29
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
can somebody tell me as to how exactly deleting these keys works +vely ... would really appreciate need to tell my students
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Peter G
5/25/2004
07:02:49
| RE: CD-RW Has disappeared from XP
also try the follwing fix
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_cd_dvd_fix.htm
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