Had my TR1MP for about 3 months now and I love it, its been working great, handling everything ive had to throw at it. Although about a week ago, I noticed that when using Windows Explorer, All the drives, gadgets connected to my Laptop show up, as normal. But I noticed that my CD Rom drive had just disapeared. Now when I insert a CD or DVD it sounds like its running fine, the Lights flashing and everything, but nothing comes up.

I checked my Device Manager and it says the drivers are corrupt or missing, although when I tried to update/install original drivers, it says they arent compatiable with this drive. I have the 745 Version of the drive and I was just wondering if anyone could point me in the direction for the original version of the driver. Any help would be great :D

Thanks
Chris

Try uninstalling the optical drive from device manager and reboot. Windows should detect the drive after reboot. See if that fixes the problem.

Edit: Also go here , type in all the required stuff and see if there are some updates available for your model.

Hi, I actually tried doing the first thing you said before now, and although XP does pick it up straight away, the CD Drive cant be installed, it just says unable to load drivers, may be missing or corrupt.

As for the sony vaio site, the only thing that relates to this problem is a firmware update, and it says that they are not for the drive im currently using, which is probably because there isnt actually a drive installed on the PC yet.

Im trying everything, updating windows, and searching for the original driver for the 745 model, If anyone else can find a driver for it would be grateful :D

Try a full install if possible.

This just happened to me today on my TR2A.

Anyone have any ideas?

To follow up on my own post for the archives….

I tried to install the latest firmware - no luck - same as Chris experienced above.

Then I put in a music CD and it found it and started playing. The CD drive was back showing up in Windows Explorer. It could even read a data CD after that. CD burning did not work though.

At this point, I was able to update the firmware. Everything seems back to normal now.

Hey grisjuan, was your problem exactly like mine, like it said the drivers were corrupt?, and were there any specific measures you took to bring it back to life? Mines still dead, although i havent really fiddelled with it for a while:P

Chris

[quote author=“CHris!”]Hey grisjuan, was your problem exactly like mine, like it said the drivers were corrupt?, and were there any specific measures you took to bring it back to life? Mines still dead, although i havent really fiddelled with it for a while:P
Chris

Our experiences sound similar, but I’m not sure if they are exact.

Device Manager showed the “yellow explamation point of death” and said it couldn’t find the device. I don’t remember whether it said the drivers were corrupt, sorry.

The only thing I did was put in a few different disks to see if the drive would read them. Data cds did nothing, but a music cd (just a regular music cd) started playing and magically, the drive showed up in Windows Explorer. I was then able to update the firmware and it has been fine ever since.

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Well, it just failed again, so I’m back to the beginning! Sorry to get your hopes up.
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I did a complete windows reinstall and the drive has been working happily for a few weeks now.