XP not recognizing CD/DVD media!

[Nick Marques]

I have a laptop with a DVD-R/CDRW Combo drive running a CLEAN installation
of Windows XP SP2 Final. In Windows Explorer, before I put any disc into the
drive, it is correctly listed as "DVD-RAM Drive (F". As soon as I put any
disc in, whether its a CDR with data or blank, DVD, anything... it changes
to "CD Drive" and Windows can't see any data on the disc(s). It seems like a
hardware problem, but the drive works FINE outside of XP. I can put my XP CD
in, and boot to it... in fact I just got done with a clean install using
that drive.

I would think it is the drive, but I have a Firewire CD Burner that I also
use, and that works fine. Additionally, I have another slim CDRW/DVD-ROM
that I swapped this drive for... and that drive does the same thing! I'm
stumped...

Any ideas? I haven't installed any burning software or anything that
emulates drives..

 

[Kelly]

Hi Nick,

Very common issue, sad to say. Do some reading here, keep us posted and
good luck!

http://groups-beta.google.com/group...xm=12&as_maxy=2005&num=100&as_scoring=d&hl=en

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All the Best,
Kelly (MS-MVP)

Troubleshooting Windows XP
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com