AvnerPeretz
Junior Member
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I know this has been a popular issue and I read a few discussions relevant to this issue, but I am still stuck here and not even sure this is an issue for Parallels forum but since I am at my wits end I thought I'd post this here as well. So please bear with me.
I am a windows developer that I just bought a MacBook Pro and installed Parallels build 3214 with Windows XP pro on it.
Things went well for a couple of weeks and then I uninstalled the blackberry software I had installed under Windows.
Since then I am not able to connect the CD/DVD drive.
When I connect the CD icon under Mac disappears (disconnects as expected) and the Devices/CD/DVD ROM shows as connected but windows doesn't display it.
I reconfigured it from parallels (under EDIT/Virtual Machine) to no effect.
Device manager under windows shows that yellow exclamation mark next to the CD/DVD devices. It reports that the drive: HL-DT-ST CDDVD GWA4080MA is not able to load its drivers.
Its drivers are llisted as:
c:\Windows\system32\DIVERS\cdrom.sys
c:\Windows\system32\DIVERS\imapi.sys
c:\Windows\system32\DIVERS\redbook.sys
c:\Windows\system32\storprop.dll
I am not sure if this an issue with Parallels configs (I doubt it) or Windows drivers since I dont know how Parallels communicates to the device.
I tried to create and connect an image of the drive with same results.
Since it was functioning well for awhile I must conclude that some corruption occurred to either windows drivers or Parallels config files but I dont any longer know how to proceed short of reinstalling Windows. By the way the drive works perfectly fine under Max OS.
Any ideas out there?
Much appreciated
I know this has been a popular issue and I read a few discussions relevant to this issue, but I am still stuck here and not even sure this is an issue for Parallels forum but since I am at my wits end I thought I'd post this here as well. So please bear with me.
I am a windows developer that I just bought a MacBook Pro and installed Parallels build 3214 with Windows XP pro on it.
Things went well for a couple of weeks and then I uninstalled the blackberry software I had installed under Windows.
Since then I am not able to connect the CD/DVD drive.
When I connect the CD icon under Mac disappears (disconnects as expected) and the Devices/CD/DVD ROM shows as connected but windows doesn't display it.
I reconfigured it from parallels (under EDIT/Virtual Machine) to no effect.
Device manager under windows shows that yellow exclamation mark next to the CD/DVD devices. It reports that the drive: HL-DT-ST CDDVD GWA4080MA is not able to load its drivers.
Its drivers are llisted as:
c:\Windows\system32\DIVERS\cdrom.sys
c:\Windows\system32\DIVERS\imapi.sys
c:\Windows\system32\DIVERS\redbook.sys
c:\Windows\system32\storprop.dll
I am not sure if this an issue with Parallels configs (I doubt it) or Windows drivers since I dont know how Parallels communicates to the device.
I tried to create and connect an image of the drive with same results.
Since it was functioning well for awhile I must conclude that some corruption occurred to either windows drivers or Parallels config files but I dont any longer know how to proceed short of reinstalling Windows. By the way the drive works perfectly fine under Max OS.
Any ideas out there?
Much appreciated