Re: CDRW and/or DVDRW not recognised
- From: Joel <joelw135@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:18:41 -0500
cloudxiii wrote:
I don't know how long it's been happening, but the other day when I went to write to a cdrw disc using my plextor cdrw drive, it wouldn't read it. I then put the same disc into my BTC dvdrw drive and it worked. The day after I bought an Asus cdrw drive to replace the plextor thinking it was burnt out, but when I went to write on the same disc neither drive would pick it up. I have tried using the windows burning utility, nero 6.3 and roxio 8 and none of them would recognise the drives. Bios wil pick them up with their correct names as will device manager. Even when I go into my computer the drives are labeled correctly but when i click on them they act like an oridnary cd rom.Try this. Open your PC and remove the plain Jane CD-ROM and put your writer on that part of the cable. Don't put the CD-ROM back on the cable. So now the writer is alone and connected to the cable where the CD-ROM was attached. Try it that way. If the writer now works reattach the CD-ROM to the place on the cable where the writer was originally. This way you reversed the location of each drive. If both work now great, if only the writer works, it could be the cable, but worst case it is the IDE controller.
I have tried reformatting, updating the firmware, installing critical updates and everything else that i can think of....this one has me stumped.
I am running an Intel P4 3.0 with win xp pro with sp2
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