Query re DVD Drives under Win XP Pro

[Dave Gillingham]

My system has a partitioned hard drive (in fact 2 IDE drives mirroring in RAID
1), and 2 optical drives, one of which is a dvd writer.

I have a number of data dvds which I have not closed so I could subsequently
write more information to them (ie I used Windows' option to use the dvd in
"this drive only").

My m/b recently died, and the repair shop installed a replacement (different
brand) and, in their wisdom/stupidity did a clean install of Win XP rather than
a rebuild. Lost all my applications but, fortunately, most of my data was on a
separate partition.

Despite retaining the same 2 optical drives, I now cannot get the dvd writer to
recognise my data dvds. Please tell me there's an easy solution!

It seems to me the things that may have changed to cause this are:

1. System hardware change (I hope not, since that's an irreversible problem)
2. Optical drives in a different sequence on the ide cable
3. Different drive letters for the optical drives. (My total number of
partitions & drives is unchanged, but maybe the optical drive letters are
reversed.)

I'd rather not start changing things willy nilly in the pious hope of a fix.
Please advise.
Dave Gillingham

 

[Dave Gillingham]

I haven't seen any replies - missing from my isp's server, or nobody can help?

My system has a partitioned hard drive (in fact 2 IDE drives mirroring in RAID
1), and 2 optical drives, one of which is a dvd writer.

I have a number of data dvds which I have not closed so I could subsequently
write more information to them (ie I used Windows' option to use the dvd in
"this drive only").

My m/b recently died, and the repair shop installed a replacement (different
brand) and, in their wisdom/stupidity did a clean install of Win XP rather than
a rebuild. Lost all my applications but, fortunately, most of my data was on a
separate partition.

Despite retaining the same 2 optical drives, I now cannot get the dvd writer to
recognise my data dvds. Please tell me there's an easy solution!

It seems to me the things that may have changed to cause this are:

1. System hardware change (I hope not, since that's an irreversible problem)
2. Optical drives in a different sequence on the ide cable
3. Different drive letters for the optical drives. (My total number of
partitions & drives is unchanged, but maybe the optical drive letters are
reversed.)

I'd rather not start changing things willy nilly in the pious hope of a fix.
Please advise.
Dave Gillingham

Dave Gillingham

 

[Ayush]

Replied to [Dave Gillingham]s message :



I think you used Packet writing software to burn the CDs. Try reading CDs after
installing :
http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/enu/Support_Tools_InCD_4_Reader.html