I am working on a computer running Windows xp sp1 home edition. It has two optical drives. Both show up in device manager saying that drivers are corrupted. The drivers are listed as: cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, redbook.sys and storprop.dll.
I tried a repair install of Windows. To do this I had to boot from a Bart's PE cd, copy the i386 folder from my windows cd to c: and then run the repair. Still no luck.
I have tried deleting the files cdrom.sys, imapi.sys, etc. but as soon as I delete them from their directory they reappear. Is windows re-creating the files? This computer had serious virus problems. I booted to safe mode and ran a full scan using Trend Micro's sysclean program. Also ran Hijack This and Spybot S&D.
Still having problem with optical drives.
I will probably just backup and reformat, but does anybody know what causes the driver files to re-appear?