Re: Win XP is suddenly not able to recognize the DVD side of my DV

Glad you found your answer.

Still, for $40 you can buy a drive that blows your old one away ;-)

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Leonard Grey
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Nurmi wrote:
Thank you Leonard. That is what I thought and bought a new DVD Writer. Same problem. I then looked through the letters in this newsgroup and found the anwer that worked.
Right click my computer, choose Manage, from Services and Application choose Services, scroll down to IMAPI. Start if needed and set to Automatic if necessary. It worked perfectly. You may be able to help someone else.

"Leonard Grey" wrote:

Could be the DVD laser or some other part is damaged. Time for a new drive.

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Nurmi wrote:
My DVD/CD Writer worked perfectly for more than three years. Suddenly without having made any changes to the system and in spite of the Device Manager showing this Writer as working properly, it fails to to see full and/or empty DVD Disks. It does however play CDs.
Totally at a loss.
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