CD/DVD recorder issues.

[Eric G. van der Paardt]

I'm having some issues with writing CD and/or DVDs. It seems that after a
cold boot, whatever media I put in the drive first 'locks' that drive to
that media type. For example, I boot up burn a cdr... after that my machine
will not burn a DVD until I reboot... and vice-versa. It also will not read
the other media type... I boot up play a DVD, I then can not read a CDR.

I have a sneaky suspicion that this is being caused by Nero, but I haven't
yet tried uninstalled that most loved application (I'll try that this
afternoon and report back). I just was wondering if anyone else was having
similar issues.

TIA
E

Machine Specs

Vista Beta (of course) Clean install.
Sony DVD RW DW-Q28A ATA (primary master)
Seagate SATA drive/Onboard Intel Pro 1000
MSI Star Key Bluetooth v2(non functioning)
ASUS MyPal 636
Intel 925 mobo
SB Live 5.1
1 Gig ram
3 GHz P4 CPU
NVIDIA Quadro FX500 128MB PCIX

 

[Bernie]

How did you get Nero to work?? Every time I try it fails at the end of
loading... 2 different releases, which both work on XP.

 

[Eric G. van der Paardt]

How did you get Nero to work?? Every time I try it fails at the end of
loading... 2 different releases, which both work on XP.

-snip
I didn't do anything special, retail copy of Nero 7 Ultra, Plus update 'just
installed' like on XP (at least far as I remember).

E

 

[Guest]

Hi Eric
I've spent the last two days on the phone with Toshiba Tech Support over
what seems to be a similar problem. I'm running Windows XP (Home Edition) on
a Toshiba P30 Satellite notebook which has a multividrive DVD/CD. My
computer always used to automatically ID whether I was burning a DVD or a CD.
Now it's giving me grief.

Currently I am unable to burn a music CD using any of the bundled software
that came with my computer: Sonic's 'Record Now'; Windows Media Player; or
Windows XP burn capability. I had forgotten that I had added the Nero app
(had never used it) so I am curious about your suspicion that this is the
problem.

To tell the truth, I am wondering if the problem was created by a conflict
created by an authomatic Windows Update.

Look forward to hearing if uninstalling Nero helps you. I hesitate to do
this because last night I was actually able to burn a music CD using Nero.
Go figure.

 

[Eric G. van der Paardt]

I'm having some issues with writing CD and/or DVDs. It seems that after a
cold boot, whatever media I put in the drive first 'locks' that drive to
that media type. For example, I boot up burn a cdr... after that my
machine will not burn a DVD until I reboot... and vice-versa. It also
will not read the other media type... I boot up play a DVD, I then can
not read a CDR.

-snip

OK Nero has been uninstalled, I've rebooted several times (having a bad
hardware day, see my post in vista_general). In MCE I attempted to burn
several shows to a DVD5 as a video cd, MCE crashed. Then I attempted to
burn a single show to a DVD5 as a video cd and it appears to be working
(though very slowly), the MCE encoder is showing 38% of a one hour show
after about 2 hours.

This is the furthest that MCE has ever gotten when encoding, and gives me
hope that I may be able to sync my shows with my PPC as well.

But it appears that Nero was the problem as I AM however able to switch back
and forth between reading DVDs and normal CDs fine, and I was unable to do
that. If I can switch back and forth burning both will have to wait till
Monday to figure out, as I am going on a tech free weekend... on a river, in
a canoe...

Wishing everyone a good weekend.
E

 

[Jdr]

Well, I've lost my CD drive completely.
They vanished from "Computer". They're recognized
by OS and being seen at the start, but are NOT
shown in the "Computer" window....

It happened after I tried to uninstall
Nero 6., which is incompatible with Vista Beta 2.

Now, I cannot find any fix for it.

 

[Bad Kitty]

This worked for me when my CD and DVD drives both did not show up in
Computer:

Start > Run > regedit > navigate to registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318

Highlight it and in the right pane, find the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters
values.

Highlight each one in turn, right click and delete them.

Close regedit and restart computer.

 

[Jdr]

Thanks - but in my case it was nothing to correct in the Registry.
CD Drive still is not responding. I think I'll reformat HDrive and reinstall
Vista Beta... Thanks anyway.
Jdr

 

[J Fife]

Finally ... it worked. I think I had an extra entry in these two lines.
I look into Win XP Regedit and changed it as "I thought" was right.
And it worked.
Thanks again
Jdr

 

[Guest]

This worked for me when my CD and DVD drives both did not show up in
Computer:

Start > Run > regedit > navigate to registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318

Highlight it and in the right pane, find the Upperfilters and Lowerfilters
values.

Highlight each one in turn, right click and delete them.

Close regedit and restart computer.







thank you so much for your help- it did what you suggested and- voila- i have a cd and dvd again- thanks again