How Do You Fix CD And DVD Device Manager Error Codes?
CD and DVD drives are perhaps that least well engineered parts of computers these days, because manufacturers do not expect them to be used very often. Thus they often malfunction. Many modern day users are familiar with the Device Manager which can be accessed by entering in “devmgmt.msc” in the Windows Start Menu Run box. Device Manager allows you to see and change special configuration data for your hardware devices. The hardware configurations accessible here are not as easily accessed elsewhere. If a CD or DVD drive is malfunctioning, and for instance not appearing in the file manager, it may still appear in the Device Manager with a yellow exclamation point next to it and an error code. This article describes methods for dealing with the error codes. Generally, all the methods can be used for any one of the error you may have. Step 1 **Likely Errors** Here are the error codes you are likely to see with CD/DVD drives: **Error Code 10 – This device is either not present, not workin