I have a 2 mo-old video editing workstation. Pioneer DVR-108 writer. I was xfr'ing a project from Adobe Encore. (doing my first DVD-related project, so I'm new to all this) It did write a disk-full of data to DVD (but I think it needed a bit more room to finish)... Anyway, at some point while futzing with it, the computer suddenly was unable to see the DVD drive anymore. Going to Dev. Mgr., Device Status is that "A driver (service) for this device has been disabled...."
Currently the "driver" assigned is cdrom.sys.
I don't fully understand all the theory, but I know that for XP (Pro in my case) a DVD doesn't use a "driver" in the classic sense... so what is it that's become disabled? And how do I go about enabling it? I've gone into services.msc and see nothing wrong -- far as I can tell... The only 4 things disabled are networking items.

Do I need to "reinstall" the firmware? I have 1.17; Pioeer's latest is 1.18. Actually, I DID download their exe & started it, and got a msg saying it couldn't find the device, or right device, etc. (should'a wrote it down, but at 3am....)

Any help GREATLY appreciated.

Lost in Indianapolis,
Carson