| All comments about GEARAspiWDM.sys: |
 ws | Filtertreiber für DaViDeo |
 Jürgen Quast | Gehört zu Norton Ghost |
 | apple file for itunes |
 beamy | Pretty much jacked up my cd-rom drives, not sure exactly how though. Seemed to coincide with the installation of Ad-Aware or some type of "worm" my McAfee VS caught and deleted. Kept getting error code 41 for my cd-rom drives after that and was unable to use either of them. Click on the link for the fix, you will have to modify a registry entry. *Edit* Upon further investigation, I found it may be linked to the installation of DVD X Copy as well. See also: Link |
| derton | seems to be part of iTunes |
| David Schulz | "How to remove" article in Gear Knowledgebase - seems to be needed BUT also seems to be left behind sometimes after uninstalling the application that uses it (such as itunes in my case). see link for driver remover utility See also: Link |
| David Schulz | This cd/dvd driver is installed by iTunes as well as other software - see link for explanation See also: Link |
| Mike R | The DVD+-RW Dell is not recognized unless GEARAspiWDM.sys is available to load at boot time. |
| ya | part of itunes. Corruptes xp x64 CD driver |
| TR2005b | iTunes interface to CDROM under WinXP. |
| Thomas W. | Installed by PartitionMagic 8 on my system, looks to be part of a copy protection system that encodes registry entries for the application (possibly more seeing that it is installed as a filter driver). Service can be easily stopped and set to manual from Services control panel, start only when needed by application |
 | Used in DVD X-Copy |
| RalfG | NeroCheck identified GEARAspiWDM as an incorrect driver in a CDROM LowerFilter registry Key. NeroCheck deleted the entry and changed the key value to 0. In common with what others have said, iTunes had been on the computer but was uninstalled just prior to NeroCheck finding the error. iTunes has been installed and uninstalled several times but this is the only time that NeroCheck has reported an error. |
| Ernie | Installed a new version of iTunes. Discovered my DVD-ROM would not work.Showed ? against hardware in Control Panel/System/hardware. GearAspiWDM was shown in device drivers as not being signed. Removed it from the System Registry as per GearKnowledgebase. Rebooted WinXP (SP1) Compaq NC6000 and all is well again. |
| foxtrot | Wird mit iTunes installiert, bei Deaktivierung des Treibers, stehen alle CD und DVD Laufwerke nicht mehr zur Verfügung. |
 Matt | causes errors in windows xp 64. Possibly causing BSOD. |
| dennis s | MS Defender found it after itunes install |
| km | Installed iTunes on Windows 2000 Pro. Re-booted and system would hang during startup. After much pain discovered the problem was apparently GEARAspiWDm.sys. Deleted this file and my system came up. |
| Matt | my dvd\cdrw stopped functioning, and when i checked the drivers the one menitioned says that is not signed...so my pc don't come in contact with the cd-rom |
| | it appears it is blocked from loading in xp x64 now. It is needed by iTunes for writing cd's |
| Robot Chicken | It doesn't allow me to play ANY CDs or DVDs |
| Robot Chicken | Breaks your DVD/CD drive if iTunes is installed. You need to edit the registry or it will not work. |
| wist | After renaming Gearspiwdm.sys, no Cd drive is recognized |
| Robot Chicken | Pretty much obliterated my DVD drive. The only way it will load a CD is if I completely restart, which is obviously not really that convienient. Somebody already posted a removal link but here it is again. It's installed by iTunes and I think it's necessary for it to rip from CDs (and apparently to gather album artwork now). But either way I absolutely cannot have it on my system. See also: Link |
| | Installed as part of iTunes 7.x as a service for all CD/DVD-ROM drives (real and virtual, not just recorders). Can and has broken all access to these drives under Windows XP x86. Manual removal through the registry may be necessary to restore drive functionality. |
| torch_n'trefoil | Norton Ghost v10 file |
| Zero | Incompatible with WIN XP 64 Bit SP 2 and cause Error 1060 |
| Maz | makes itunes not install |
| j1ayi | my CD & CD writer drive cannot work as my system says its not verisigned...how do i deal with it?HELP! |
| Jon | I thought mistakenly thought that gearAspiWDM.sys was causing my computer to crash. Unfortunately, I was mistaken. I renamed it to malware1 and now my DVD-+RW is not recognized. |
| CJP Setevens | Yes, this is installed by iTunes in system\sysWow64\Drivers\GEARAspiWDM.sys . (Running Server 2003 x64 R2) This driver will cause errors due to its incompatibality with x64 architecture (e.g., XP x64 Edition, Server 2003 x64). Specifically, if you're running ATI Catalyst Control Center (cli.exe) it will cause the ATI program set to fail. Simply uninstalling iTunes is the only way to resolve the issue. After iTunes is removed, all problems will be solved. FYI, if you try to just remove gearaspiwdm.sys only, this will likely cause your CD/DVD drives to fail as the redbook driver will not work |
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