HKDRV driver is absent

Tylara · Oct 12, 2004

I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop. Recentely after booting I received the error message "HKDRV driver is absent". Since then my game stopped working because the sound wouldn't work and I can't play music. I tried reinstalling the sound driver and other drivers and that didn't help. Later I reformatted the hard drive which worked but less than a week later the same error message is back with the same problem. Where do I get this driver? I have checked several driver web sites and none have heard of this driver, neither has microsoft. Any suggestions?

RealBlackStuff · Oct 13, 2004

Welcome to TechSpot

From what I have gathered, that is the driver for your CD or DVD-rom. You could try and do a repair using the Recoveryconsole, or if you have XP, do a reinstall-in-place, or do a Restore back to the point when it was still working.
Backup your data first.
Alternatively, ask a friend with a similar laptop, to email you that file (with instructions where he found it, probably windows\system32).
Boot into safe mode and put it back where it belongs.

corskey · Nov 19, 2004

Tylara said:
I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop. Recentely after booting I received the error message "HKDRV driver is absent". Since then my game stopped working because the sound wouldn't work and I can't play music. I tried reinstalling the sound driver and other drivers and that didn't help. Later I reformatted the hard drive which worked but less than a week later the same error message is back with the same problem. Where do I get this driver? I have checked several driver web sites and none have heard of this driver, neither has microsoft. Any suggestions?

Tylara,

did you succeed in solving this - if U did, any chance of letting me know how

cheers

Corskey

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