Inability to access the CD or DVD drive

Your computer had been working just fine but themodifying the registry which is in itself a risky ordeal
sudden helplessness that has set in due to thebecause one discrepancy caused while implementing
inability to access the CD or DVD drive has put youthis task can cost you a lifetime worth of data.
off. As far as you remotely remember, you hadThese error messages are all case in pointers to the
done everything right starting from a proper shutfact that your registry needs modification leaving you
down of the system to checking its drivers not towith no other option but to attempt this task. If you
forget installing the best anti-virus software too.are a beginner and not too sure, don't attempt it
Then what went wrong?because it will wreak more damage than you can
Immediately after having removed a program fromever imagine. Get a veteran to help you out if need
the computer, have you started encountering thisbecause one wrong step in handling the registry
problem? You are no longer being able to access theeditor can lead you to reinstall the operating system
CD or the DVD drive using My Computer and to topdeleting all the important data if it has been stored in
it off you have an error message flashing across thethe primary partition along with the Operating
screen that reads thus: "error code 31". All you cansystem.
remember is having removed a CD recordingUnder the given circumstances the above faults can
program or a DVD recording program in youronly be tended to if the Upper Filters and the Lower
Windows XP.Filters registry entries are removed through effective
Thank God! You are not the only person who hasregistry modification. It is advisable to uninstall all CD
ever suffered a similar fate, there have been loadsrecording or CD writing programs before embarking
of people before you who have complained about aon the task. These can be reinstalled after the
similar error. This is a typical behavior that getsresolution has come by. Once this is successfully
replicated when you try to vew the CD drive or thecarried out, restart the computer and you can be
DVD drive in the Device Manager. In this case therest assured that your problem would vanish into thin
errors that you are likely to confront are as follows:air but if you have messed up in between and
1. The device is not working properly becauselamenting over your hastiness and the ensuing fault it
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4. "error code 39" error message.for data recovery from Windows whatever might be
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Windows successfully loaded the device driver foryou have lost your precious data and a reinstallation
this hardware but cannot find the hardware device.of the Operating Systems is bothering you, install
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There is no troubleshooting available if your registry isevery bit of your lost data that has suffered deletion.
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