Thanks for the suggestion I will look at those drivers. I did remove the
upper and lower filters early in my trial and error process! :)

"KDE" wrote:
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> 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
> news:83530EFA-274C-4342-87AD-DDA2E2746495@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > 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]
>
>
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