My card reader never worked and I do have a Toshiba Laptop. You have me interested now Kpac!
Okay then. I might be able to solve your disc drive problem, but not the card reader.
Well the thing is, my CD/DVD drive works when it wants to, basically. Sometimes when I turn on my
Toshiba laptop, it doesn't work. When I restart it, it does work. I have checked online in every possible site available, and have found out that it is a common problem with Toshiba laptops. I called Toshiba, they suggested things that I had already tried, and eventually coming to the conclusion that a reformat was probably the only option to get rid of it.
So, here are a few things that I did to try and solve it:
Do you have iTunes installed?If yes,
- Press the Start button and in the search bar at the bottom of the Start menu type "regedit”. Press enter.
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} (The first value of this entry should read "CD/DVD Drive").
Now once you have found the CD/DVD drives key in the right panel there should be "UpperFilter" and "LowerFilter". Right click each of these and select Delete.. Once you have deleted these close the registry editor and re-boot. Please, if you are unsure about anything, ask before doing it.
Did you try a system restore?If neither of those options solve the problem, then...- Start in
safe mode using the F8 key method.
- Go to Start search. Type "device manager" and press enter.
- Check under CD/DVD Drives for something starting with "TssT CORP".
- If you find it, right click and select Uninstall.
- Once uninstalled, reboot the PC into normal mode.
- When finished starting up, the computer should automatically install the device drivers for the disc drive again.
Any luck?
