@#$% roxio ez cd 5

[stupid_tech_geek]

Stupid stupid me. I can't belive that I actually did this but here goes. I installed roxio ez cd 5 on my comp. My dvd drive disappeared in my comp so I went to the site and downloaded a patch so it would work with xp. I was downloading something so I had to wait a while before I could reboot but when I did the dvd drive was still missing in my comp. I uninstalled the program but I still can't see the dvd. I can't play any games or do anything with the drive because when I put the disc in I get a msg " no supported drive installed". Any ideas where I can look for the little bit of s@##$t droppings that roxio left behind. Thx

A7n8x dlx 1004 Uber Agressive settings
2500Barton (Bastards locked it) Radeon 9200
WD 60g @7200w 8mg Cache Crucial 2700 2x 256
AMD ME??? Yeah they did me alright.

 

[stupid_tech_geek]

Update; I found the driver and deleted that. I uninstalled my drive in device manager and did a scan for hardware changes. It picked up my drive but while it was installing it just stopped for some reason. This is perplexing but I haven't given up yet.

A7n8x dlx 1004 Uber Agressive settings
2500Barton (Bastards locked it) Radeon 9200
WD 60g @7200w 8mg Cache Crucial 2700 2x 256
AMD ME??? Yeah they did me alright.

 

[HammerBot]

Had the same problem a while back. I think it was adaptec easy cd creator deluxe or something like that. I installed it on a w2k machine, and puff, all my atapi devices vanished. After several days with a load of different attempts my drives were still gone.

The only solution I found was to reinstall the OS.... sorry.

<i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>

 

[stupid_tech_geek]

Yeah, I'm coming to that conclusion too. I uninstalled the nforce drivers and went back to the old 2.45's but to no avail. What's that sig I've seen around here? fdisk, reinstall da doo doo da or some such thing. I'm kinda bummed too because I gave it my all to track this thing down. Can't tell you how many times I've done this before.

A7n8x dlx 1004 Uber Agressive settings
2500Barton (Bastards locked it) Radeon 9200
WD 60g @7200w 8mg Cache Crucial 2700 2x 256
AMD ME??? Yeah they did me alright.

 

[Zoron]

With Roxio 5, it's important to download the updates and apply them BEFORE you reboot the computer. I can't remember where I heard this, but I know it saved my bacon with Win 2000... and with Win XP.

<font color=red> If you design software that is fool-proof, only a fool will want to use it. </font color=red>

 

[stupid_tech_geek]

I wish I knew that before I installed the software. I found the entry in the registry that messed up my dvd drive and now everything is good again. I'll stick with Nero from now on. Thanks.

A7n8x dlx 1004 Uber Agressive settings
2500Barton (Bastards locked it) Radeon 9200
WD 60g @7200w 8mg Cache Crucial 2700 2x 256
AMD ME??? Yeah they did me alright.

 

[Zoron]

I love Roxio 6.



Nero is good too... I have both.

<font color=red> If you design software that is fool-proof, only a fool will want to use it. </font color=red>