Driver not signed? It's a MS driver!

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Hi, I did an upgrade on my brothers computer to windows 8 the other day.

Everything went great, all his stuff seems to work including his absolute hoard of games that he didn't want to re-install.

Only problem is, his dvd driver is showing:

"Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source. (Code 52)"

In device manager.

It's a Microsoft driver created at 6/21/2006, maybe it's an old driver which was migrated that shouldn't have been?

Either way, removing the driver and scanning for hardware changes simply reinstalls the same driver so as it stands, the only way to get the drive working is turning on test mode which isn't desirable either.

Does anyone have any better suggestions?

Thanks.

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My driver has the same date listed on it. What's the driver version number?

It's actually the same drive as mine and my drive works fine. It's the same driver too! The only difference appears to be in the date format

Mine reads as: 21/06/2006

His reads as: 06/21/2006

Don't know if this is just a date preference or embedded differently

Elevated command prompt: sfc /scannow

Tried this, no changes were made

Guest

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A Microsoft driver isn't necessarily good forever.

I would search for a newer driver.

I thought most DVD-Writers used the default atapi drivers included with windows, for years now actually... there are other options? :s

The manufacturer doesn't seem to have provided any...

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There are many device drivers that never get updated, I have a brand new Crosshair V Formula mobo and a brand new 2TB Seagate HDD and a new windows 8 install and I also have a 2006 driver for the HDD (I Don't have any optical drives)

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Grand Master

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Good point -- he may be forced to buy new hardware -- a typical drawback of a new OS.

It's possible yep :) I'd blame the upgrade first though, can't really diagnose bad hardware unless it's a clean install / the hardware is actually on fire

I'm running 8 as an upgrade atm too and although it works, it just doesn't have that windows 8 feeling that a fresh 8 install has

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It worked on windows 7 and it's the same model as my drive which works fine on windows 8 so I'm almost certain something went wrong with the upgrade... Would prefer to fix it rather than clean install (for my brothers sake, Id always opt for a clean install) but its looking like that might be the only option. Or restore that windows 7 image I backed up for him :/

Grand Master

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It worked on windows 7 and it's the same model as my drive which works fine on windows 8 so I'm almost certain something went wrong with the upgrade... Would prefer to fix it rather than clean install (for my brothers sake, Id always opt for a clean install) but its looking like that might be the only option. Or restore that windows 7 image I backed up for him :/

Just do that "Refresh your PC without affecting my files" option, should be as good as a clean install without the problem of backing everything up

I`m going to do it on this upgrade of 8 soon too

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It's just the default driver from the previous windows version. everyone has em. Try downloading the driver and reinstall.

Actually, did you tryuninstalling the driver in Device Manager, and then it would just reinstall on it's own.

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That the filters issue. If that were the case I believe Device Manager wouldn't show the drive at all. I'm not saying to not try it, in fact I would recommend it, since it literally can't hurt.

However I think it wouldn't show up at all if that were the case.

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