I don't know what happened but I seem to have lost my driver. My CD no longer functions and in the computer management I can not enable it! My drive does not show in my disk management either! If it's not my driver I don't know what else it could be! Help Please I am desperate!

Support Information:
Device Type: CD / DVD
Manufacturer: LG Electronics
Model: LG CD-RW CED-8120B
Interface: Parallel Port
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
Age of Device: < 2 years old
FCCID:

Type of drive: cd-rw, cd-rom (rewriter &amp; reader)
Location: internal
What recording software are you using?: Nero/version (Other: roxio)

Find it on DriverGuide (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=srch&sm=b&aax=&qa6=591&qa5=3&qa7=1500&dp=2&qm0=LG+CD-RW+CED-8120B&jmd=and&fzz=d) | Find it with Google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=LG+Electronics+CD+%2F+DVD++LG+CD-RW+CED-8120B+Windows+XP+Professional+) | Research manufacturer LG Electronics (http://members.driverguide.com/index.php?action=getinfo&companyid=591)

Optical drives never require a driver when used in any Windows os from Win95 up. Windows XP provides native support that allows this drive to read a data or music disk and to burn a cd-r disk.

Simple solution:

Situation
There is a yellow exclamation mark for CD/DVD drives in Device Manager. The device status in the properties of the driver might indicate an error code, for example 32, 37, or 39.

Solution

To solve the issue, you have to edit the Windows Registry:
Click Start, then Run, type REGEDT32 and click OK.
Locate and then remove the following registry values:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlCl ***{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}LowerFilters

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlCl ***{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}UpperFilters

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Close Registry Editor.
Reboot the system for the changes to take effect.

Note: Some programs are unable to detect the CD/DVD drive after these steps. To solve this, simply re-install the program in question, eg: usually your recording software. Also, in few instances the order in which the programs are (re-)installed can make a difference.

And here's another method that will do this automatically for you if you're afraid to edit the registry manually.

http://forums.driverguide.com/showthread.php?t=22131
(automatic fix, post #7, download file: CdGone.zip)

Situation
There is a yellow exclamation mark for CD/DVD drives in Device Manager. The device status in the properties of the driver might indicate an error code, (32) .

I followed the advice of the moderator Jerry K, and with excellent results. The exclamation point disappeared, and my CD-RW is now functional again after removing the LowerFilter.

Thank you very much.

hans123

Sometimes either the upper or lower filter will be missing from the registry. No problem just delete the one that is there and resume.

Glad it fixed your problem.