Re: DVD drive problem

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Did you run the MS fix?

Pioneer drivers:
http://www.updrivers.com/drivers/Cd-R_DVD-R/Pioneer/2/267.html

"stevespeed" <stevespeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5970E1EC-731A-45D5-A84D-2DC63C0FDE66@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Bob, Thanks for the response but I find it a bit confusing. Windows
"sees" my drive and names it correctly in Device Manager, also I can access
and install programs on CD or DVD from the drive. Maybe some of the data
programs on my computer don't recognize the drive, that may be a part of the
problem. One thing I notice from device manager, it says that the driver I
am running is "provided by Microsoft" and dates from 2001, that sounds like
it could be a problem to me, so I will try to get an updated driver from
Pioneer. I have found that difficult to do in the past, so if anyone out
there knows where to obtain such a thing without getting into the "pay us $20
and we'll update all your drivers with our super program" scenario, I would
love your help, thanks.
--
stevespeed


"Bob" wrote:

Your CD drive or DVD drive is missing or is not recognized by Windows or
other programs

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060


"stevespeed" <stevespeed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C7401A8A-E284-4781-A8F4-357623C17FFE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi, I hope someone can help with this confusing problem.
>
> I have a Dell Pentium 4 machine running Windows XP Media Centre > Edition.
> I
> run McAfee AV/firewall etc. with online update and I think my machine > is
> clean. I have a hardware problem that started after I got into the IE8
> then
> XP SP3 problem that others have had. I wanted to un-install IE8 > because I
> had installed it over IE7 with add-ons and toolbars which caused > problems.
> As we all know this is difficult! but somehow I got back to IE7 and I
> think I
> don't have SP3 anymore though I am not sure. The hardware side of this > is
> that after I had gone through all this trouble I found that my DVD > drive,
> (some Dell unmarked black box thing) had stopped working and couldn't > be
> found in Device manager or My Computer etc. So I thought, driver > problem.
> I
> tried driver re-install, update, all the software stuff, I tried > physical
> removal, re-boot, close down, physical re-install and re-boot, search > for
> new
> hardware, couldn't make it work. So I thought, fatal corruption of
> firmware
> or just failure of cheap 18 month old unit, so I bought a new drive. a
> Pioneer DVR-116DBK 20x Internal DVDRW, which went in fine and seemed to
> work.
> Unfortunately I have now found that though I can play audio from the
> drive,
> read from the drive and explore, load and install from the drive I > cannot
> write data too it. When I look in "My Computer" the drive is shown as > CD
> Drive D: with the icon saying DVD-RW as per disc, yet when I try to > double
> click on it I get, "D:\ is not accessible, incorrect function". This
> happens
> if the drive is empty, has blank media in it or data discs I wrote with > my
> old drive. When I try to back-up my account files and suchlike material > I
> get
> denied all access and cannot read my old back-up discs. If it has an
> audio
> disc or a disc with photos on they are accessible and can play or > upload.
>
> When I look in "Computer Management, Disc Management" at the drive with
> one
> of my old data discs in it shows the drive as being healthy. There is > no
> info in the lower section but the upper part of the display shows,
> partition,
> basic, healthy, capacity 0%, free space 0%, %free 100%, Fault Tolerance
> No,
> Overhead 0%. When I put a program disc in it shows up in the top > display
> and
> in the graphic at the bottom, perfectly normally.
>
> With audio, I can write too and playback from discs, it's just data > that
> won't work, so now I am very confused. If anyone has any ideas I would > be
> glad to hear them.
>
>
> stevespeed



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