Except that I don't think there are supposed to be driver for these drives
for Windows 2000 at least on the website it says none needed. I will have to
look and see if there are any on the CD that came with the drives or
anywhere else.

What a pain.

Dan

on 7/9/02 8:54 AM, Thomas Ferguson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Have you tried going to the device manager, clicking on the offending drive,
> then on its properties and the Driver tab...  Will it let you reinstall the
> driver?  If you can get there, point it to your drivers using the "Have
> Disk" button...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Stein
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:24 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: [OT] Windows 2000 server driver problem.
> 
> 
> I booted from the CD and ran the repair but the drivers installed by Windows
> 2000 still results in a corrupt registry.
> 
> I wish there was some way to install drivers directly from say a floppy that
> I made from The CD when I booted into Windows 2000. Or even to copy the
> registry for the CD's from my drive with Windows 2000 professional on it.
> 
> I downloaded Resplendent registry which allows me to do that and tried
> double clicking on the saved registry files which it then says have been
> added bit they are no added. Maybe I'm doing something wrong in the export?
> 
> on 7/8/02 10:24 AM, Thomas Ferguson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>> Couple of ideas...
>> 
>> Do you have a current Emergency Repair Disk?
>> 
>> Have you tried going back to the last good configuration (F8 during bootup
>> gives you choices like Safe Mode, Last Known Good Configuration, etc.
> This
>> has saved me a few times, but you may have negated this option already.
>> Worth a try.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Stein
>> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 10:14 AM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk
>> Subject: Witango-Talk: [OT] Windows 2000 server driver problem.
>> 
>> 
>> I installed a Microsoft compatibility update and Easy CD creator Platinum
> on
>> my Machine. Afterwards my CD drives would not show up. After removing the
>> update and the software the troubleshooter tells me I have a corrupt
>> registry files.
>> 
>> So I uninstall both my CD drives and then plug and play reinstalls but the
>> same problem occurs.  I can see that the folder in the registry does not
>> look right. The name instead of some combination of characters then name
> of
>> drive then long line and some character with word bad in it just has name
> of
>> drive and line with BAD in it.
>> 
>> This is running server so I can't just run Norton on the machine. I really
>> would not want to reinstall the OS I use this machine for development and
> I
>> am in the middle of a project.
>> 
>> Any suggestions. Seems like whatever is being installed by the plug and
> pray
>> software is corrupted any tools that might fix this?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Dan Stein
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>> 
>> --
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