This morning I jumped on my computer and noticed that my CD/RW icon under the c drive was gone, There is power, the grey cable is hooked up right, and when I dagnose the problem, says it is missing or corrupted. Anyone know what the hell to do here...

Cassandra

Is the drive listed in the:

1. BIOS?

2. My Computer?

3. Disk Management?

4. Device Manager?

Where; how are you diagnosing?

What is your Operating System?

Originally Posted by jephree

Is the drive listed in the:

1. BIOS?

2. My Computer? right click on my computer, and daignose the HD, CDROM, etc

3. Disk Management?

4. Device Manager? HEre too, yellow ? mark

Where; how are you diagnosing? Diagnosing on C drive

What is your Operating System?

Windows xp home SP1

Try uninstalling the drive under the Device Manager & then reboot.

Originally Posted by jephree

Try uninstalling the drive under the Device Manager & then reboot.

I appreciate the help, it didint work, i dont know if this will help at all, but it gave me a code 39 after the missing or corrupted file message. There is power to the rom, but it just seems like the driver dissaperared, would u happen to know where I could get a new driver for the rom, or whatever u think could be wrong. This is the first time it has happened, I have dual firewall (pc cillin) and my ip provider. I am stumped

Code 39: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) Reasons for this error include a driver that is not present; a binary file that is corrupt; a file I/O problem, or a driver that references an entry point in another binary file that could not be loaded.
Uninstall the driver, and then click Scan for hardware changes to reinstall or upgrade the driver.

& or:

On the General Properties tab of the device, click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooting wizard.

XP should load its' own drivers for disk drives.

Try the above ideas & see how it goes.

I doubt that it is an issue here but you should only run one firewall.

Originally Posted by jephree

XP should load its' own drivers for disk drives.

Try the above ideas & see how it goes.

I doubt that it is an issue here but you should only run one firewall.

ok, but how would i scan for hardware changes? i am an intermiade user here, thank u for your help

Open the Device Manager: Start/Run/ devmgmt.msc

Click on the + next to DVD/CD-ROM drives

Right click on samsung sw-252 s CD-RW

Here you can try: Update driver as well as Uninstall the drive as well as Scan for hardware changes etc.



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I have checked Samsung. They do not have drivers for this device as Windows should supply its' own. They do have a Firmware upgrade if you should find that you need it:

http://www.samsung.com/support/produ...e=FM&language=

Hey there, I did everything what u told me to do, and when my plug and play detected the samsung cd/rw it all loaded then an error came up saying the file is corrupt or missing. What od u think of changing the bus serials to the secondary port ?

Sorry I am not sure what you mean by: "changing the bus serials to the secondary port".

This is an internal drive is it not? Are you asking about the cable position & or the IDE channel?

By "bus" "serial" "port" I am thinking USB

Just to add more questions: did you make any hardware or software changes before this issue?

What are the verbatim error messages that you receive? Are they always Code 39?