CDROM.SYS current, but corrupted. How to replace it ? 1

[FredWagner]

On an HP Pavilion, running Vista-64, current patches, the DVD drive no longer works. The Device driver says it's corrupted.
But I can't force a rename, or delete it, because it's protected as a System file.
I thought buying a new drive would force a solution, but it still wants to use the same corrupted copy of CDROM.sys
to access the drive. The disk that came with the new drive doesn't have CDROM.sys on it.
Suggestions, please!

I'm 'retired' now, but still System Tech for everything at home!

Fred Wagner
(retired, but still involved!)

 

[rclarke250]

Have you tried deleting the upper and lower filters, like here?

 

[FredWagner]

That looks like it might work - thank you very much for the link. I'll post the results here later!

Fred Wagner
(retired, but still involved!)

 

[FredWagner]

rclarked250 - The procedure worked! simply deleting the lower limit and rebooting convinced Device Manager that nothing was wrong, and now I can read disks in the drive. Thank you!

Fred Wagner
(retired, but still involved!)

 

[rclarke250]

You are welcome, glad it worked. I had a laptop that this happened on.

 

[FredWagner]

I never would have guessed that the solution would be a registry hack ! So glad we have this forum to share wisdom on. thanks again!

Fred Wagner
(retired, but still involved!)