DVD Drive Problems

[mach7]

My DVD drive has been going on the fritz recently and I can't figure
out what's up. First of all, XP (SP2) reports it as a CD Drive
instead of a DVD drive. And It won't play any content - I've tried
both a DVD movie and a CD game (both of which used to work on this
machine). But Windows definitely knows it's there and can read the
content - that is, I can navigate around the folders on the DVD and
see the video files, cab's, etc. Anybody know what's going on? I'm
not a noob so please don't ask if things are plugged in and such.
I've checked that there are no errors in Device Manager and there are
no new drivers available.

Thanks,
J

 

[Malke]

My DVD drive has been going on the fritz recently and I can't figure
out what's up. First of all, XP (SP2) reports it as a CD Drive
instead of a DVD drive. And It won't play any content - I've tried
both a DVD movie and a CD game (both of which used to work on this
machine). But Windows definitely knows it's there and can read the
content - that is, I can navigate around the folders on the DVD and
see the video files, cab's, etc. Anybody know what's going on? I'm
not a noob so please don't ask if things are plugged in and such.
I've checked that there are no errors in Device Manager and there are
no new drivers available.

Sounds like the drive is failing. Either boot with Knoppix or a rescue
system CD to test or swap out the drive for a known-working one.

Malke