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Hi there,
I am hoping that someone out there is smarter than I ever thought I was! I
have a laptop with WinXP Pro SP2 (32bit) and 2 DVD Burners installed, 1
internal (HL-DT-ST DVD +-RW GWA4040N SCSI) and 1 External (DVDRW DRW-6S160H
USB, this is Dual Layer, Light Scribe, etc.).
I just formatted my computer and reinstalled all of the software, and I’ve
got a small problem now. With both drives if I insert ANY blank DVD media
(+/-/R/RW/DL etc) it will only recognize it as a “Blank CD†and my icon in
Explorer changes from “DVD-RW Drive†to “CD Drive.†And if I try to open it,
I get “E:\ is not accessible Invalid Function.â€
I had this same problem last time I had to do this, and for the life of me I
can’t remember how I fixed it, and no, I didn’t write it down! I’ve searched
Microsoft’s boards, and tried every KnowledgeBase article I could find, none
of them work. It seems that MS thinks this error only occurs if Roxio is
involved, which it is not, and never has been on this system.
I’ve also searched Internet message boards hoping to find the same answer I
found last time, but I can’t seem to find it. I’ve deleted the drives and
reinstalled them, deleted the upper and lower filters, updated ASPI to both
Nero and Adaptec’s versions, I have all of the updates that Microsoft’s
update site tells me I need, changed from DMA to PIO and back… Etc. Etc. Etc.
Finally, not withstanding the fact that they were both working just prior to
the format, and that this same thing happened last time I formatted… I know
the drives are still good because I can (and have) put them both in my
mother’s XP Home Edition laptop and they work perfectly.
The one thing I have found is that if I regedit and disable IMAPI on the
drives, it gets rid of the error message, but the “Blank CD†is still staring
me in the face, and I still can’t burn any DVDs (with Nero 7.)
Please, is there something I’ve overlooked?
Thanks in advance,
~Luke
I am hoping that someone out there is smarter than I ever thought I was! I
have a laptop with WinXP Pro SP2 (32bit) and 2 DVD Burners installed, 1
internal (HL-DT-ST DVD +-RW GWA4040N SCSI) and 1 External (DVDRW DRW-6S160H
USB, this is Dual Layer, Light Scribe, etc.).
I just formatted my computer and reinstalled all of the software, and I’ve
got a small problem now. With both drives if I insert ANY blank DVD media
(+/-/R/RW/DL etc) it will only recognize it as a “Blank CD†and my icon in
Explorer changes from “DVD-RW Drive†to “CD Drive.†And if I try to open it,
I get “E:\ is not accessible Invalid Function.â€
I had this same problem last time I had to do this, and for the life of me I
can’t remember how I fixed it, and no, I didn’t write it down! I’ve searched
Microsoft’s boards, and tried every KnowledgeBase article I could find, none
of them work. It seems that MS thinks this error only occurs if Roxio is
involved, which it is not, and never has been on this system.
I’ve also searched Internet message boards hoping to find the same answer I
found last time, but I can’t seem to find it. I’ve deleted the drives and
reinstalled them, deleted the upper and lower filters, updated ASPI to both
Nero and Adaptec’s versions, I have all of the updates that Microsoft’s
update site tells me I need, changed from DMA to PIO and back… Etc. Etc. Etc.
Finally, not withstanding the fact that they were both working just prior to
the format, and that this same thing happened last time I formatted… I know
the drives are still good because I can (and have) put them both in my
mother’s XP Home Edition laptop and they work perfectly.
The one thing I have found is that if I regedit and disable IMAPI on the
drives, it gets rid of the error message, but the “Blank CD†is still staring
me in the face, and I still can’t burn any DVDs (with Nero 7.)
Please, is there something I’ve overlooked?
Thanks in advance,
~Luke