I’ve had a problem on my laptop at work. Suddenly my CD/DVD-drive was not found in “My computer” and looking in “Device Manager” just showed me a yellow exclamation mark for my CD/DVD-drive and an error that my driver was corrupted or missing (Error code 39).

The exact error-message was: “Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)”.

At first I tried to remove the drive through the “Device Manager” and reboot my computer, but that didn’t help at all. I then started looking on the internet hoping I could find a solution. After about an hour I did.

The problem – on my computer – proparly is that I have installed or uninstalled an application that has an CD/DVD filter driver. That could make this error occur. Microsoft made a description of the problem and has made a solution for it too. You can see this here.

However instead of using the slow manual Microsoft has described as a solution, I chose to find a VBS-file that could do the same just by double clicking it. You can find this file here.

I downloaded the file, executed the file and rebooted my computer. After that my CD/DVD-drive was found in “My computer” and was no longer tagged with a yellow exclamation mark in the “Device Manager”.

Please notice I do not take any responsibility for errors this fix might do. Running the script or following my guide is 100 % your own responsibility.

My CD/DVD-drive was the following model: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GMA-4082N.

I hope this solution will work for you aswell.