my DVD drive disapeared!

Hi All,

I've seen similar threads, but no solution. In my case, the reason is known:
the Canopus Edius installer tried to patch the CDROM drivers with its own
stuff, and - even though Vista said the new driver is incompatible and
rejected it - the original driver got damaged. Now, the question is how to
restore it without fresh Vista install?

You talking about driver or firmware?...big difference. If it's a driver
(software that allows OS to use the drive), you can just reinstall the
software. If it's firmware (software that is programmed on a chip on the
drive itself) you got a bigger problem and will most likely need to contact
drive manufacturer to download and install the original firmware. Firmware
installs are a little more serious and potentially dangerous than driver
installs due to the fact the drive itself is where firmware goes and can
basically render the drive useless if done wrong.

Jeff

"Piotr Wozniacki" <p.wozniacki@wp.pl> wrote in message
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> Hi All,
>
> I've seen similar threads, but no solution. In my case, the reason is
> known: the Canopus Edius installer tried to patch the CDROM drivers with
> its own stuff, and - even though Vista said the new driver is incompatible
> and rejected it - the original driver got damaged. Now, the question is
> how to restore it without fresh Vista install?

Have you checked this article?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553/

"Piotr Wozniacki" <p.wozniacki@wp.pl> wrote in message
news:ECE3CC49-1BBE-4FA6-B444-744A36D5FB62@microsoft.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I've seen similar threads, but no solution. In my case, the reason is
> known: the Canopus Edius installer tried to patch the CDROM drivers with
> its own stuff, and - even though Vista said the new driver is incompatible
> and rejected it - the original driver got damaged. Now, the question is
> how to restore it without fresh Vista install?
Hi all,

I'd like to inform you that I found the offender - it was the installation
program from Canopus, trying to install it's own stuff on the DVDROM drive
system for the Edius Pro system. Unfortunately, even though Vista recognized
it's not compatible and refused to install the Canopus drivers, the original
got so badly damaged it was the easiest way for me to re-install Vista! It
wasn't an elegant way, though:-(

"MikioK" <m.kanemaki@att.net> wrote in message
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> Have you checked this article?
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320553/
>

Hello, just checked this article's prescription on how to delete
upeerfilters key from the registry and voila - the DVD is back!