Your registry may be bad (Code 19)

[austin26]

Hi,

My CD rom is not working from past few days and when I check in the device manager it said something that your registry may be bad (Code 19) and I wonder if u guys could help me. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drives to no avail.

[Seraphim]

Code 19 - This code means the registry returned an unknown result. To resolve this problem, follow the recommended solution, which will run Scanreg.exe. If this does not solve the problem, type "scanreg / restore" (without quotes) from a command prompt. Finally, remove the device in Device Manager, and then re-detect it by using the Add New Hardware in Control Panel.

[Zenon]

For error message, "Your registry may be bad (Code 19)", You need to check your registry, click Check Registry. If the registry is bad, Microsoft Windows reboot the system and return to a previous registry that is good.

[Astalavista]

This error message occurs if the value ConfigFlags for the device is not in the registry. This behavior often occurs because Windows 2000 has listed the device but did not find an associated file.

* Use the Update Driver button to update the driver.
* If the Add New Hardware wizard does not detect an available driver, verify that the Driver.cab file is still present in the %WinDir%\Driver Cache\I386\ folder. If the file is present but no driver is detected, a driver for the device may not have been included in Windows 2000. Check with the manufacturer to obtain a digitally signed Windows 2000 device driver and the driver when the Add New Hardware wizard prompts you to do so.
* If you supply a known good device driver and the device still fails, the registry may be corrupted and you may need to restore the registry from a known good backup.

More information : Microsoft