CDRW and/or DVDRW not recognised

[Guest]

I don't know how long it's been happening, but the other day when I went to
write to a cdrw disc using my plextor cdrw drive, it wouldn't read it. I then
put the same disc into my BTC dvdrw drive and it worked. The day after I
bought an Asus cdrw drive to replace the plextor thinking it was burnt out,
but when I went to write on the same disc neither drive would pick it up. I
have tried using the windows burning utility, nero 6.3 and roxio 8 and none
of them would recognise the drives. Bios wil pick them up with their correct
names as will device manager. Even when I go into my computer the drives are
labeled correctly but when i click on them they act like an oridnary cd rom.
I have tried reformatting, updating the firmware, installing critical
updates and everything else that i can think of....this one has me stumped.

I am running an Intel P4 3.0 with win xp pro with sp2

 

[Joel]

I don't know how long it's been happening, but the other day when I went to
write to a cdrw disc using my plextor cdrw drive, it wouldn't read it. I then
put the same disc into my BTC dvdrw drive and it worked. The day after I
bought an Asus cdrw drive to replace the plextor thinking it was burnt out,
but when I went to write on the same disc neither drive would pick it up. I
have tried using the windows burning utility, nero 6.3 and roxio 8 and none
of them would recognise the drives. Bios wil pick them up with their correct
names as will device manager. Even when I go into my computer the drives are
labeled correctly but when i click on them they act like an oridnary cd rom.
I have tried reformatting, updating the firmware, installing critical
updates and everything else that i can think of....this one has me stumped.

I am running an Intel P4 3.0 with win xp pro with sp2

Try this. Open your PC and remove the plain Jane CD-ROM and put your
writer on that part of the cable. Don't put the CD-ROM back on the
cable. So now the writer is alone and connected to the cable where the
CD-ROM was attached. Try it that way. If the writer now works reattach
the CD-ROM to the place on the cable where the writer was originally.
This way you reversed the location of each drive. If both work now
great, if only the writer works, it could be the cable, but worst case
it is the IDE controller.

 

[Guest]

Try this. Open your PC and remove the plain Jane CD-ROM and put your
writer on that part of the cable. Don't put the CD-ROM back on the
cable. So now the writer is alone and connected to the cable where the
CD-ROM was attached. Try it that way. If the writer now works reattach
the CD-ROM to the place on the cable where the writer was originally.
This way you reversed the location of each drive. If both work now
great, if only the writer works, it could be the cable, but worst case
it is the IDE controller.

It is not the IDE cables as they have already been replaced with new ones.
Position does not matter...I have already tried it as well as changing the
jumper settings. I have also tried disconnecting everything and reconnecting
one device at a time between complete shut downs.

 

[Guest]

It is not the IDE cables as they have already been replaced with new ones.

Position does not matter...I have already tried it as well as changing the
jumper settings. I have also tried disconnecting everything and reconnecting
one device at a time between complete shut downs.

I spoke to a computer technician today and he reckons it is a problem with
windows xp itself and the only way is to edit something in the registry.