HP DVD Writer 840b Drivers

[Knogahoogle]

Having problems with my DVD Writer and i want to go back to the initial driver and start over.  I have the latest update from hp but it hasnt fixed the problem.

The writer isn't writing on the cd, it says that it is but nothing shows when I try to view the files afterwards.  I have a M7300e Media center PC ver. 2002 running XP with Service Pack 3.  The DVD Writer is an HP DVD Writer 840b with a AMD 64 Processor and 3 gig of ram and 176 Gig of free space on the hard drive. The dvd drive may just have gone bad, but i want to salvage it if i can.

[1badGuard · Accepted solution]

Try:

Removing Upper and Lower Filters

Step 1:

Click

Start > type "regedit" in the Start Search box, and then click "regedit" in the Programs list.
 

Locate, and then click the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

right-click UpperFilters, and then click Delete.

right-click LowerFilters, and then click Delete.

Step 2:
Click

Start, Right click on Computer and go to Manage, then in Computer Management, click Device Manager
 

Click

the "+" next to DVD/CDROM Drives and Right Click and Uninstall the Driver
and check "Delete the driver software for this device" and click Uninstall
 

Restart and Test the Drive ...

[Knogahoogle]

dmhoo29, 

Works like new, Thanks

[1badGuard]

Awesome. Glad to help.

[sparky8gal]

Having problem with by HP DVD writer 840b reading anything at all.  I tried the fix below. 

[whenintward]

thanks