Hi All,
I installed a USB 2.0 Digital Camera memory card reader the other day and it totally hosed my system. Windows identified at as about 3 or 4 removable drives instead of just one. Well anyway, for some reason after plugging it in, my CD-Rom and CD-Burner were just gone from Explorer and My Computer. So I checked my device manager which shows them both being listed but with exclamation points by them indicating a problem. The error message says that their information/driver is messed up in the registry. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling them, but it doesn't help, they're still messed up in the registry. I've never messed with the registry in my life. I build my own machines, but was never brave enough to play in the registry for fearing of hosing my machines. How can I fix this problem or do I need to reformat? I keep my C: drive to a bare minimum, so reformatting isn't the worst, but I hate downloading and installing all those damn WinXP updates. It takes forever even with DSL! Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Anthropas
I installed a USB 2.0 Digital Camera memory card reader the other day and it totally hosed my system. Windows identified at as about 3 or 4 removable drives instead of just one. Well anyway, for some reason after plugging it in, my CD-Rom and CD-Burner were just gone from Explorer and My Computer. So I checked my device manager which shows them both being listed but with exclamation points by them indicating a problem. The error message says that their information/driver is messed up in the registry. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling them, but it doesn't help, they're still messed up in the registry. I've never messed with the registry in my life. I build my own machines, but was never brave enough to play in the registry for fearing of hosing my machines. How can I fix this problem or do I need to reformat? I keep my C: drive to a bare minimum, so reformatting isn't the worst, but I hate downloading and installing all those damn WinXP updates. It takes forever even with DSL! Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Anthropas