cd-rom drivers corrupted?

[cloud_171]

For some reason yesterday all of a sudden my dvd-rom drive on my laptop and all my virtual drives stop working. It doesn't display under My Computer and when I go look in device manager a exclamation mark is over all my cd drives and has this error "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)." Any clue where I could download these drivers or any other ideas on how to fix this? Thanks.

[trackrat]

This is off the microsoft site for error code 39

Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)

Reasons for this error include a driver that is not present; a binary file that is corrupt; a file I/O problem, or a driver that references an entry point in another binary file that could not be loaded.

Uninstall the driver, and then click Scan for hardware changes to reinstall or upgrade the driver

[Scarecrow Man]

Remove the upper filter and lower filter values from the Registry

=========================================================

1. Click the Start button, click Run. Type Regedit in the Open box and

then click OK.

2. Browse to the following key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11C

E-BFC1-08002BE10318}

NOTE: This is the CD-ROM/DVD global class key.

3. Delete the upperfilter and lowerfilter entries if these strings are

present.

4. Restart your computer and check if the problem disappears.