My CD ROM has quit working. It is a HL-DT-ST CDRW?DVD GCCH10N I see it on the device manager but I can not find the driver. I don't know if it got erased by a virus or by accident, but it's gone.

> unable to read any CD or DVD. Its detected in device manager but cant ready media.
Can you hear it "spinning" the media? If not, you have a "defective" unit (motors or bearings).
If it spins, but nothing is read, then you have a "defective" unit (dead laser).
Take it back to where you bought it, and get them to test it, to prove that it is "bad", and then for them to replace it.

> in Hardware details it shows HL-DT-ST DVD RAM GH24NS50 SCSI CDROM Device.
Normal for most SATA devices.
> it shows as HT-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8526B ATA device.
Perfectly normal.

Control panel,administrive tools,computer management,device manager scroll to cd/dvd rom drives right click properties then properties again then tick enable cd digital cd audio for this cd rom device or scroll to dvd regions select the no _ for your specific area

hope this helps

the driver of that device was corrupt. the driver of cd/dvd rom is built in operating system. your first step is to open device manage then right click my computer then click properties then click device manager tab then double click the cd/dvd rom drives then right click the dvd device and click update update driver software and follow screen instruction.

My computer is not showing the option of DVD option in my computer

A CDRW/DVD is a CD-burner and DVD-ROM combined unit. It is not meant to record DVDs only CDs.

It will not recognise a blank DVD as it is unable to read any file system.

The DVD -R +R means that you can read these types of DVDs that have been created elsewhere, it doesn't mean you can write to your DVD under the format of -R or +R. The CD is a CDRW which means you can read and write to CDs.

I don't think that a factory Satellite P100 has the ability to write to either DVD -R or +R, but to only CDs. I have a P200 that has a DVD -R +R/CDRW and it can't write DVDs. These DVDs you put in are for read only. My Toshiba A215 can but it's a DVDRW/CDRW.

My hl-dt-st cdrw/dvd gcc4244 ata device cannot write on DVD-rw imation cd why. How to resolve this problem

The driver is actuall built in with the Operating system, there is no download for dvd rom drives.
But if you are can see an alert on device manager indicating drivers are not installed on your DVD ROM drive, just follow the steps here...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461/en-us

and it should work after several restarts, if you are running on XP.

sounds like your cd/dvd is mechanically shot. time for a new one.

my HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082N has a problem i cant up date the drivers in my computer it is missing so if in incert a cd it cant be found my HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082N has a yellow exclamation an status Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)