CD's missing

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nesredep egrob

Sorry about the prior post - please ignore

A moment of madness or was it just the onset of something worse made me look at
errorsmart which promised to speed up my computer something drastic - yes it
showed that there was more than 1000 errors which could be corrected if I paid
the dues -
Well I did and promptly my favourite video editor was not available and I could
not reinstall it. The makers of the editor and I went into a lenghty email
session with no end result. Other things on my computer bothered me.

Help came in the way of a 10GB image of the OS partition dated before the
purchase of the magic program mentioned above. Hi presto - trouble cured.
I installed the update of the editor and all was thought to be well - however
Roxio 7.0 seemed to have been damaged. Not to worry, reinstalled and 'hp';
my beautiful 700 GB SATA raid array was missing as was also the CD's.
Even the Disk Manager showed no signs of anything else but my 2x 200 GB disks.

Saved the registry and looked for any instance of errorsmart. Also uninstalled
Roxio and did a similar deed to that in the registry. I also cleaned out any
occurence of Roxio in my folders and partitions.
That cleared up the trouble only to recur on a subsequent installation of Roxio,
this time the CD' were missing but the raid array had reappeared.
Finally installed W2K from disk, that would have cleared any trouble in
registry, hitched the Image to that which worked fine. Updated bits in Document
and Settings from a newer Image and back to normal, I thought.

Installed Roxio and again I had lost the CD's.

I have roxio 10 but it will not work on W2K - so what might you do. Buy and
install XP Pro (remember Roxio 7 did work on this computer) or do you have some
powerful magic to help me, please.

B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia
B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
Hello nesredep egrob Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40,

Please just describe the steps you have done, your errors and what you are
trying to achive. The complete story round this delete, so that anybody here
can follow your real problem and see what the problem is.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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Hello nesredep egrob Long. -31,48.21 Lat. 115,47.40,

Please just describe the steps you have done, your errors and what you are
trying to achive. The complete story round this delete, so that anybody here
can follow your real problem and see what the problem is.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
no rights.
** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups
** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

AS below - I bought and used a program called errorsmart. Once it had done its
work, I could not use my Desktop magic video editor. I obtained an update and
could not install neither 3.3 nor 4.4. The message was something like not being
able to write something to the register. I could not figure out what was wrong
but after a night sleep I came up with the idea of installing an Acronis Image
that I had before the errorsmart was put to use. That cured that trouble and I
managed to install the editor which was on a CD. The image was on a external
drive so also that installed nicely.
However I soon discovered that the Raid array and the CD drives were neither in
the explorer not in the disk manager.
I looked on the internet and found other people who had trouble with Roxio and
their CD's however that was dated 2002.
Being on my own I uninstalled Roxio and to make sure that all was right I saved
the Register and deleted the masses of Roxio information on the register. I had
previously done the same with ErrorSmart.
It brought my Array back and also my CD's. Sensing success I then installed
Roxio again only to lose contact with the CD's - Roxio is again uninstalled and
the computer is working but without Roxio which was working well before the use
of ErrorSmart and that really is the total explanation.

Børge in sunny Perth, Australia
 
Hello nesredep egrob

I had a similar problem I fixed by corrected Upperfilters and Lowerfilters
values in the registry.

First I backed up (exported) the key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11C
E-BFC1-08002BE10318} then I deleted the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters
subkeys (just the 2 subkeys).
I then downloaded http://patches.sonic.com/PX/pxengine1_08_34a.exe, ran it,
rebooted my machine and my DVD drive was finally recognized.

Make sure you backup the key in case you need to restore it.

I hope this helps.


Eric
 
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