dvd drive not working

I am having some trouble with my NEC 3550A DVD drive in Windows XP SP3.
The drive is not visible in Explorer and cannot be accessed. The
Device Manager does show the drive but informs me the driver is missing
or corrupted (Code 39).

I have uninstalled the DVD drive numerous times from the Device Manager
and either rebooted or ran the Add Hardware Device applet. In each
instance the OS finds the Plug and Play device and installs the device
drivers but informs me that it couldn't do it properly. I have
replaced the IDE cable and tried out a known good DVD drive as a
replacement but continue to get the same result. The BIOS recognizes
the drive.

Now I suspected bad generic drivers for the test. NEC does not provide
drivers but does have updated firmware. I tried that to no avail. The
Device Manager shows four driver files as being used by the hardware
device: cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, redbook.sys, storprop.dll. I deleted
them all and they were immediately replaced by the service that
protects critical files. I even replaced them with copies from a
working XP computer. Fearing a defective Secondary IDE Channel, as a
last attempt I booted from a bootable CD-ROM and it came up fine.

Considering the drive works outside of Windows what else can I do to
troubleshoot and repair this issue?

On Nov 19, 10:49 pm, "badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolfer....RemoveThis@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I am having some trouble with my NEC 3550A DVD drive in Windows XP SP3.
> The drive is not visible in Explorer and cannot be accessed.  The
> Device Manager does show the drive but informs me the driver is missing
> or corrupted (Code 39).
>
> I have uninstalled the DVD drive numerous times from the Device Manager
> and either rebooted or ran the Add Hardware Device applet.  In each
> instance the OS finds the Plug and Play device and installs the device
> drivers but informs me that it couldn't do it properly.  I have
> replaced the IDE cable and tried out a known good DVD drive as a
> replacement but continue to get the same result.  The BIOS recognizes
> the drive.
>
> Now I suspected bad generic drivers for the test.  NEC does not provide
> drivers but does have updated firmware.  I tried that to no avail.  The
> Device Manager shows four driver files as being used by the hardware
> device: cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, redbook.sys, storprop.dll.  I deleted
> them all and they were immediately replaced by the service that
> protects critical files.  I even replaced them with copies from a
> working XP computer.  Fearing a defective Secondary IDE Channel, as a
> last attempt I booted from a bootable CD-ROM and it came up fine.
>
> Considering the drive works outside of Windows what else can I do to
> troubleshoot and repair this issue?

Give the XP section of this KB a whirl for Code 39:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060