Custom Sony Vaio FW55, Blu-Ray drive not recognised

[paratcl7657]

Hi, bit of a long shot but here goes...

I have a Sony Vaio FW55 running on Windows 7, it was a custom spec when I purchased it a few years ago.

It has given me a great service and continues to do so, however:

Recently I noticed it wasn't playing certain Blu-Ray disks, so messing around I tried un-installing WinDVD and re-installing a newer version.

Since then my Blu-Ray drive is now un recognised. 😞

It is a Mat*****a BD-MLT UJ240AS

It is listed in my device manager, but with an error; "Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)"

I have tried using the 'update driver' feature but it just says that the correct version is already installed.

Please help! currently I have no DVD / Blu-Ray drive at all. 😞

[rich912]

Hi paratcl7657,

Have a look at Blencogo's answer in the following thread:

https://community.sony.co.uk/t5/pcs-accessories/sony-vaio-vf1521a7eb-can-t-burn-dvd-s/m-p/1982498#M1...

Although in this instance it was error code 19 the answer applies to error code 39 also.

Rich