For a Video DVD to be recognized, you must have DVD decoding software
installed, such as PowerDVD and/or WinDVD.
When was the last time you run a cleaning kit on each optical drive..... and
remember the drive does fail after a while. They are getting better, in the
old days of Windows 9x, I never had an optical drive last much more than 12
months or so, but I've had my Pioneer A08 for about 16 months and so far so
good.
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Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Client - Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/Windows
"MrHappy" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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5E0B9A6-E072-421C-969C-(E-Mail Removed)...
>i have two systems running xp home and xp pro. i am having trouble with
> cd-rom drives and dvd drives. half of the time the cd won't recognize. i
> can
> never get a dvd to recognize. everthing worked well before, sometime in
> the
> recent past. between the two systems, i have three drives that work
> sometimes. data disks seem to be ok. music disks are 50/50, dvd's are out.
> it seems real strange that i have trouble with three drives at the same
> time.
>
> system restore has done nothing to help me.
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