Re: DVD drive problem

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I ran the MS fix and have done all the troubleshooting stuff. I thought the
"fix it for me" thing on MS website would help but it didn't.

Pioneer don't list a driver for my drive, they don't seem to list drivers
just for re-installing but only when there is an update or whatever.

Sorry to take so long to respond, my hotmail account seems to think that MS
discussion group notifications are spam!

Thanks,
--
stevespeed


"Bob" wrote:

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
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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
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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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