I have a Gateway Laptop with a Toshiba DVD-ROM/R/RW drive. Windows (XP SP2) does not correctly install the driver. I know it is not a hardware issue, because when I reboot I can boot from the cd ...

This post features solutions to fix Code 42, Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware because there is a duplicate device already running in the system ...

After removing a USB device from your computer, if you get a message saying Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for safe removal but it has not been removed from the ...