MS MVP Question: DVD WriterDoes Not Recognize DVD Driver or Virus Problem?

[Michael Carakatsane]

While writing a single layer DVD (Iomagic 16x/ Double Layer drive) data
disk last week, Nero program stopped writing to the DVD. Space was
tight at the time on my machine. Since then if I put in a DVD or CD, Win
XP does not recognize that a disk is mounted. If I try to look at the
disk with Win Explorer, there are no files listed.

I worked with the drive manufacturer, Iomagic, they had me put in the
Nero installation disk which came up fine, launched the installer and in
Win Explorer I could see the files on the disk. That is the only disk I
can read. DVD movies from the store and DVD/CD's that I have written
don't work.

Iomagic had me update the drive firmware and install ASPI layer (Don't
know what this is?) These things didn't help. They gave up and told me
to use a new copy of full strength Nero 6 to solve the problem.

The drive has worked well for 9 months under Win XP. The problem came
when I was writing a disk with Nero Express last week. It can't be a
hardware problem I would imagine because the drive/software can read the
Nero disk. Has a driver gotten clobbered and needs to be reinstalled or
could I have a particularly mischievous virus in my machine? If I need
to reload the DVD driver, how would I do that just that?

Any help from a power user would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for
any help you can give.

Michael Carakatsane

 

[crime prevention]

have you tried removing removing your drive in device manager and rebooting

While writing a single layer DVD (Iomagic 16x/ Double Layer drive)
data disk last week, Nero program stopped writing to the DVD. Space
was tight at the time on my machine. Since then if I put in a DVD or
CD, Win XP does not recognize that a disk is mounted. If I try to
look at the disk with Win Explorer, there are no files listed.

I worked with the drive manufacturer, Iomagic, they had me put in the
Nero installation disk which came up fine, launched the installer and
in Win Explorer I could see the files on the disk. That is the only
disk I can read. DVD movies from the store and DVD/CD's that I have
written don't work.

Iomagic had me update the drive firmware and install ASPI layer (Don't
know what this is?) These things didn't help. They gave up and told
me to use a new copy of full strength Nero 6 to solve the problem.

The drive has worked well for 9 months under Win XP. The problem came
when I was writing a disk with Nero Express last week. It can't be a
hardware problem I would imagine because the drive/software can read
the Nero disk. Has a driver gotten clobbered and needs to be
reinstalled or could I have a particularly mischievous virus in my
machine? If I need to reload the DVD driver, how would I do that just
that?

Any help from a power user would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
for any help you can give.

Michael Carakatsane

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