CD & DVD Drives

[Guest]

My CD & DVD drives quit working. When I insert a CD, Autorun does not work,
nor is Explorer able to access the drives. I check the Device Manager and it
did not show that there were any problems with the drives.

Any Suggestions?

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem. With both release 5600 and the upgrade to
RC5728. In fact I had to install the upgrade from our network as I had no way
to burn the disk locally (5728 ISO) and after burning the disk on another
system my system was unable to even see the disk in the drive. I have two
drives and it's the same problem for both. I sure hope they find a fix for
this. Nothing I've tried so far has worked.

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same problem. With both release 5600 and the upgrade to
RC5728. In fact I had to install the upgrade from our network as I had no way
to burn the disk locally (5728 ISO) and after burning the disk on another
system my system was unable to even see the disk in the drive. I have two
drives and it's the same problem for both. I sure hope they find a fix for
this. Nothing I've tried so far has worked.

 

[Guest]

My drives are detected about 5% of the time. It is quite frustrating. I have
a dvd-rom (master) and a cd-rom (slave) on the primary IDE. Have tried
cable select and drive jumper for master/slave - no help.
Have had problem with Beta2 as well as RC1-5600.

DVD is a NEC ND3550, CD is a Lite-on.

I have 2 SATA drives and 1 ATA on the secondary IDE.

MB is an Abit AV8, with an AMD64 3500+.

 

[Guest]

I found this in another post and it worked for me. Neither my DVD writer nor
my CDR worked after updating RC1...I went and edited the registry key listed,
rebooted, and it worked!!!!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553

 

[Guest]

I would really like to try that, but I am afraid I don't know how to edit the
registry key. Would you be able to tell me?

 

[Donald L McDaniel]

I found this in another post and it worked for me. Neither my DVD writer nor
my CDR worked after updating RC1...I went and edited the registry key listed,
rebooted, and it worked!!!!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553

NOTE that the above article states that it applies only to XP or Vista
Beta 1.

It works for ANY version of Vista, however.
I am using Vista RC2 (Build 5744) and it works fine.

One thing seems to be the cause of this disappearance (or at least, it
seems to be the common factor in any build of Vista I've used so far.)

If I leave a disk in the drive for any length of time, the next time I
reboot, the drive seems to be missing, and I always have to reboot
into OS X to eject the disk. This does not seem to restore the
corrupt driver in Vista, however.

Using the above-mentioned Registry hack works like a charm, however.

Donald L McDaniel
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[Donald L McDaniel]

I would really like to try that, but I am afraid I don't know how to edit the
registry key. Would you be able to tell me?

1) Start regedit
"Start/Run/regedit<Enter>" (don't enter quotes)
2) Once in Registry Editor, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
(Do not expand the view any further).
3) In the right pane, under the "Name" column, there will be a sub-key
called "Upper Limit" (with Type of "REG_MULTI_SZ"). Click on that
entry, and delete it.
4) Exit Registry Editor, and reboot. The drive should once again show
up in Computer.

One thing I have found that helps is to ALWAYS and IMMEDIATELY remove
any disks from the drive after using them, as this seems to be a
contributing factor in the drive disappearing.

Donald L McDaniel
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