My DVD drive will only read DVD disks and not CD ROM disks.

S

sl5400

I have a Sony PCGA-CD51. It is an external CD Rom drive meant to b
used with Sony Vaio PCG-N505 series notebooks which come installe
with windows 98. It connects via a type 2 PC card slot. I opened th
housing of the drive and installed a toshiba DVD ROM drive. The uni
worked well in reading both CD and DVDs

I then upgraded the OS on the notebook to windows XP. Since I di
this, my external drive will ony read DVD disks. When I insert a C
ROM disk, it spins in the unit for a while and then stops. Window
says theres no disk in the drive. The only way I can install new cd
is by burning an image to a dvd-r. I even tried putting back the ol
CD ROM drive in the unit, but it still fails. I suspect I need
driver or patch to get this unit to work fully with Windows XP

Help Please.. :crybaby
 
D

dawg

Check for firmware updates for your drive at the manufacturers website.
Updates are pretty common and esy to install
 
J

jaster

I have a Sony PCGA-CD51. It is an external CD Rom drive meant to be used
with Sony Vaio PCG-N505 series notebooks which come installed with windows
98. It connects via a type 2 PC card slot. I opened the housing of the
drive and installed a toshiba DVD ROM drive. The unit worked well in
reading both CD and DVDs.

I then upgraded the OS on the notebook to windows XP. Since I did this, my
external drive will ony read DVD disks. When I insert a CD ROM disk, it
spins in the unit for a while and then stops. Windows says theres no disk
in the drive. The only way I can install new cds is by burning an image to
a dvd-r. I even tried putting back the old CD ROM drive in the unit, but
it still fails. I suspect I need a driver or patch to get this unit to
work fully with Windows XP.

Help Please.. :crybaby:

Yeah I saw a similar thing with an older HP running WinME upgraded to W2k.
Basically the driver was specific to WinME/98. They need to buy a $10
driver CD from HP to upgrade the HP CDRW driver for W2k/XP. Why
they don't buy the CD or a $40 DVD-RW I don't know.
 

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