DVD drive

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My DVD Rw drive will not recognize any DVDs that I insert. It perfectly
reads CDs, and games, but when a DVD is inserted, it claims that their is
nothing in the drive. I do not believe this to be a hardware issue, as it is
working just fine in XP. Any ideas/thoughts would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
 
David said:
My DVD Rw drive will not recognize any DVDs that I insert. It
perfectly reads CDs, and games, but when a DVD is inserted, it claims
that their is nothing in the drive. I do not believe this to be a
hardware issue, as it is working just fine in XP. Any ideas/thoughts
would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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Firmware update? Go to the manufactures website and see if they have a new
update. How did you install Vista if the drive is now faulty?

Rich
 
I just tried a large portion of my DVD collection. A few of them work just
fine, but the majority of them are still not being recognized by the drive.
I insert the DVD into the drive, but it doesn't sound like the DVD is
spinning in the drive at all. CD's and games, work just fine. As far as
updates are concerned, I am running the latest.
 
David said:
I just tried a large portion of my DVD collection. A few of them work
just fine, but the majority of them are still not being recognized by
the drive. I insert the DVD into the drive, but it doesn't sound like
the DVD is spinning in the drive at all. CD's and games, work just
fine. As far as updates are concerned, I am running the latest.
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If the drive isn't spinning, the drive is faulty. It doesn't matter that
it's new. Return it for a replacement.


Malke
 
I've got exactly the same problem with my DVD-drive. It can play cd's and
some dvd's, but only write cd's, no dvd's. I have the latest firmware
installed too.
My drive is a SATA optical.
I did a test and installed the drive into a pc that is running Windows XP
and everything works just fine: I can read any dvd's even write them. So I
don't think its a hardware malfunction. My dvd drive is a Plextor PX-755SA.
 
I have the same problem as well. I have two drives a NEC ND-2510A & a Sony
CRX320E. Everything has the latest drivers & firmware. I have been using
Vista on this new PC since the beginning of February. Until recently they
both recognized DVD's. Now they do not even recognize Microsoft DVD's. I put
in the Microsoft Office 2007 DVD that I used when I set up the PC and I
receive an error message that "The language of this installation package is
not supported by your system". I double checked the DVD Region & the Regional
and Language Options. They are all set to United States. Other DVD's show the
label but appear empty in Windows Explorer with the message "Drag files to
this folder to add them to the disk. Autoplay will show a choice on some but
neither selection will work or on some will cause a BSOD. I am also having a
problem with it recognizing a USB drive I received from Microsoft. It shows
up in Device Manager as working properly but nowhere else. When I try to
populate the volume tab it reads status unreadable. All of the DVD's in
question and the USB work fine with the same hardware using XP. I have also
noted that there are several postings very similar to this one on the
website. One last note, I installed a DVD Player to see if it would help.
After installation Vista reported that it had issues with the player. When I
try to uninstall it a severe error message comes up "The installation will be
terminated at this time. This software is intended for Windows 98, SE, ME,
2000, or above versions only."
 
I am having the exact same problem. I built a new rig, installed Vista Home
Premium, and now my sata DVD/CD drive will recognize CDs but not DVDs. If I
use another file explorer program like Total Commander, I can see the files
just fine (but not with Vista file explorer). If I try to run DVD files from
Total Commander, though, I get the BSOD. Any ideas? I've tried everything I
could find in MS's support sites, to no avail.

Jim
 
Sounds like my problem in burning Dual-layer DVD's in a single-layer burner:
it never reformats *both* layers.

On a freshly formatted DVD, does Computer show *any* used bytes?
 
So many people do have similiar problems. It is very likely a bug in
Vista. I am using a ND-4571A and its working fine under XP, but with
the descibed problem under Vista Business. Some CD/DVDs can be read
and others not. In explorer you can see, that the size is determined
correctly (by example 350 MB if CD-R is just half-full), but if you
try to access the drive, then it just offers to format the disk.

I found no way no way out of this, even a firmware update brings
nothing. A workaround may be to connect to another computers shared CD/
DVD-drive. Preferable the other computer should run XP.

Lamy
 
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