CDRW drive disappears from Windows.

 

 

First get the latest GEAR driver:

 

ftp://downloads.gearsoftware.com/pub/updates/windows/win32/drivers/Driver_Installer.exe

 

Please go to www.windowsupdate.com and download all of the critical and driver updates.

I'd like you to try uninstalling the software that came with your burner as well as the CD burner's driver.

Go to your CD-RW drive manufacturer's web site and install any driver updates available for your CD-RW. If there are any Firmware updates, it is very important to install those also.

 

Now reinstall Pyro.

 

If this does not work, we can fix the problem to where your CD Rom drives show up again. The easiest way to do this is with Windows System Restore. You can revert Windows back before Pyro was installed. Or you can try this: 

 

Open command box (or a DOS Prompt) by going to Start | Run and type Command. Navigate to Pyro install directory, and type "cdfilter.exe /remove". Then restart. This will remove the GEARAspiWDM reg entry and restore CD drives. Alternatively, the user can also find the above reg entry and remove "GEARAspiWDM" from the UpperFilters value.

 

 

 

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