CD/DVD Drives not updating what disk is in the drive

[Guest]

I have a DVD/CD-RW drive and a DVD+/-RW drive. It occurs on both drives.
Heres what happens:
1. Start computer/Log in
2. Put cd in drive
3. Check on My Computer that it sees the cd
4. Remove cd from drive
5. My Computer still says that the cd is in the drive
6. Browse the contents of the supposed cd in the drive. It shows the files
on the cd.
7. Try to open a file from the cd gives an error. ex. opening an
executable says "___ is not a valid win32 application"
8. Return to My Computer
9. Insert a different cd
10.My Computer still says that the original cd is in the drive
11.Browse the contents of the cd in the drive. Files shown are the files on
the new cd, not the original one.
12.The only way to make it recognize that a new cd is in there (as far as I
have found) is to restart the computer.

Clicking refresh at My Computer does not affect anything. I have updated
the firmware on my DVD+/-RW drive, but it did not help. I often use Alcohol
120% to mount images on virtual drives, so I removed all of the virtual
drives from my system, but this did not help either.

Any ideas?

 

[Jim]

I have a DVD/CD-RW drive and a DVD+/-RW drive. It occurs on both drives.
Heres what happens:
1. Start computer/Log in
2. Put cd in drive
3. Check on My Computer that it sees the cd
4. Remove cd from drive
5. My Computer still says that the cd is in the drive
6. Browse the contents of the supposed cd in the drive. It shows the
files
on the cd.
7. Try to open a file from the cd gives an error. ex. opening an
executable says "___ is not a valid win32 application"
8. Return to My Computer
9. Insert a different cd
10.My Computer still says that the original cd is in the drive
11.Browse the contents of the cd in the drive. Files shown are the files
on
the new cd, not the original one.
12.The only way to make it recognize that a new cd is in there (as far as
I
have found) is to restart the computer.

Clicking refresh at My Computer does not affect anything. I have updated
the firmware on my DVD+/-RW drive, but it did not help. I often use
Alcohol
120% to mount images on virtual drives, so I removed all of the virtual
drives from my system, but this did not help either.

Any ideas?

Have you tried the software eject button? You will find this button by
right clicking on the device in "My Computer".
This button causes XP to flush all data about the drive. If you just pull
it out, XP has no way of knowing that
you have removed the disk.

Jim

 

[Guest]

Have you tried the software eject button? You will find this button by
right clicking on the device in "My Computer".
This button causes XP to flush all data about the drive. If you just pull
it out, XP has no way of knowing that
you have removed the disk.

Jim

It doesn't help. It still says the original cd is in the drive.