DVD showing as CD

[Lemon Jelly]

This has got me stumped: my newly installed LiteOn DVD drive shows up as
a DVD in Device Manager & in the Disk Management console but in My
Computer, it shows up as a CD drive. So what? Well I can't select DVD
movies from the Autoplay drop-down list.

Had a look in my reg under {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} & all
seems correct. I know its not a h/w problem because if I install another
instance of XP onto another drive, it shows up as a DVD in My Computers.
I've deleted my 2 drives from DM, turned off then removed the IDE cable
then rebooted then rebooted again with the drives attached. Both
remember their drive letters which shouldn't happen (Y & Z) as they
should take the 1st available letters. It seems deleting in DM isn't
removing all references.

Has anyone some idea how to overcome this?

 

[Kamo]

I got same problem.
Just installed NEC 1300 DVD writer, and it comes as CD
drive with disk size about 4Gbyte. As a result I cannot
use DVD-writing software.

 

[Lemon Jelly]

Kamo - typed:

I got same problem.
Just installed NEC 1300 DVD writer, and it comes as CD
drive with disk size about 4Gbyte. As a result I cannot
use DVD-writing software.

I might be mistaken but the number of CD/DVD posts seems rather high at
the moment. A recent Critical Update broke my CD/DVD shortcuts which was
fixed by contacting MS directly but it works for me on the other
instance of XP with the same upgrades!

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Have you installed the DVD decoding software (WinDVD, PowerDVD) whichever
came with your drive.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[George Cruppi]

Re-install your dvd playing software. Without it you can't play back dvd
movies.

 

[Lemon Jelly]

George Cruppi - typed:

Re-install your dvd playing software. Without it you can't play back
dvd movies.

DVD movies play fine but I'll probably re-install it anyway. The
instance of XP where My C correctly displays the drive as a DVD player
doesn't have any DVD s/w installed.