How to fix broken CD/DVD drives in WinBlows

Author: , October 7th, 2009

I ran into this craziness today and learned this trick from Dean at Dell support: In regedit, navigate to the following hive: [code] * HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE * SYSTEM * CurrentControlSet * Control * Class * {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} [/code] This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in […]