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drive suddenly disabled, and windows wont lemme enable it

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 4:11 pm
by Zero_Distortion
dunno what happened, went to burn a disc then nero asked me to choose a recorder, none were listed, so I pondered, check explorer and there was how D drive (which my burner was), checked hardware manager and it was disabled, tried to enable it and couldn't, anyoen have any bright ideas? I tried checking for new hardware or changes and nada. There have been no changes to this machine is nearly 6 months, its been running like a champ. By the way this is error 22 and the dimwits at microsofts website had this to say "(Code 22) The device is disabled because a user disabled it using Device Manager.
Click Enable Device, which starts the Enable Device wizard." Which doesnt work!

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 4:45 pm
by CDRecorder
Try right-clicking on the drive's entry in Device Manager and click "uninstall". Then reboot and see if it is enabled.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 5:11 pm
by Zero_Distortion
I already fixed it but thanx for the reply

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 5:29 pm
by CDRecorder
You're welcome; how did you fix it?

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 8:57 pm
by Zero_Distortion
it was so easy Im almost embarrassed to tell you

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:00 pm
by CDRecorder
Well, I'd be interested to hear, but you don't have to post it if you don't want to.

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:03 pm
by Zero_Distortion
right click, uninstall, right click install :-)

PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2003 9:05 pm
by CDRecorder
Good deal! Glad to hear that it's working again. :D