Sonicstage kills DVD drive

[WildW]

I've been having trouble with Sonicstage (I hear this isn't unusual). When I install it, my DVD drive vanishes from My Computer, and in device manager I get "Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (Code 37)" Has anyone encountered this before and perhaps know of a fix? Couldn't find anything similar reported on Google.

Downloaded the latest version of Sonicstage and am using Vista Home Premium.

[sector001]

maybe there's a virus that's making your drive disappear? do a virus scan and see what happens...

[A440]

Since it's Vista, are you absolutely sure you're using SonicStage 4.3 ? It's the only one that's supposed to work with Vista.

Does the DVD drive return if you uninstall SonicStage?

If you do ascertain that the problem is SonicStage--and nothing would surprise me about the ill effects of two programs as trouble-prone as SonicStage and Vista--you should contact Sony support. You might also contact your hardware manufacturer, since it could be something particular to that computer or DVD drive.

[WildW]

It is definititely SonicStage CP ver. 4.3 - I have the CD in front of me. It mentions Vista on the disc. I also tried downloading the newest version from Sony's website and got the same result. The DVD drive is working until I install SonicStage and reboot. Once it's rebooted, the CD drive doesn't work. If I roll back Windows to just before I installed Sonicstage, DVD drive works again. Really bizarre

For now I've installed on my XP-running laptop without any problem, so it's not the end of the world.