I am using a Windows XP Service Pack 2 laptop with since past 1 year and never had any problem with this. Today morning when i booted up the system and opened My Computer, i found that all my removable media drives appear grayed out with a big red slash in a circle over them. Whenever i click any of them i receive the following error message:
"Administrator has prohibited access to CD/DVD ROM drives."
I haven't made any changes to the system in past one month, and surely not in the last two days which migh have resulted in this error. Also i am the only Admin or the only user of this laptop. Dont know how all these devices tuned into Read Only. The only thing i did on this laptop is about 3 days ago and that was installing drivers from CD for an upgraded video card. Could this be the cause of the problem?
While searching for help i came through an MS KB article and according to the same i found that the registry setting StorageDevicePolicies was not set, but I set it to 0. However not success yet. I thought system restore could fix the issue but i am now no more able to perform restore also.
Somebody please help me with this. Many thanks.
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