uninstall Roxio and Itunes, reboot and see if it's back. if yes, then it's
the GEAR drivers used by either roxio or Itunes. google for "lower
filters, itunes, vista" there are some work-arounds to make it work.


"Amadeus47" <Amadeus47@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Tried CDGone - also reset MSAHCI to 0
>
> Dell XPS 410
> Vista 32 SP1
> 4 GB RAM
> 250 GB HD
> 250GB external drive - Firewire
> Radeon 1950
> DVD-RW Samsung SH-S203N (New - and the problem)
>
> The old drive is a Samsung TS-H553. The same problem happens with it as
> well
> when I reinstall it.
>
> The problem is the drive doesn't show up in Win Explorer.
>
> I see it in the Device Manager. Properties shows error 28, no driver
> installed. Tried to update. I get a Roxio Cdr4 driver that cannot be
> installed. Did uninstall drive from DM. But, same result. I know Vista
> doesn't need a specific driver to run the DVD.
>
> Followed the directions in KB320553 re: MSAHCI and reset to 0 (Value was
> 4).
>
> Ran CDGone. Still nothing.
>
> Tried to run a Vista repair but drive would not read. Went into setup and
> changed setting to Autodetect RAID/ATA. Ended up blue screening with the
> x78
> error. Was able under this setting to access the drive and run a
> repair...several times went through it. But, could not boot into Vista as
> the
> x78 error kept coming up. Went back and reset drive to RAID. Could boot
> but
> cannot see DVD drive.
>
> Nero was originally installed on system. Manually cleaned it out a month
> ago. Everything worked fine since so did not know if there was an issue
> with
> that. Read on other posts that this may have been a problem. Downloaded
> the
> Nero cleaning program and ran it. No luck with it either.
>
> Do have Roxio 10 installed. Not sure if there is a problem there.
>
> So, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This has taken way more
> time than I really want to expend...but, isn't that the way with
> computers???
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike[/color]