Seires of DVD Problems (Hardware)

[Guest]

I am having a lot of problems with my DVD drive. The first problem was that
XP MCE simply stopped recognizing that it was even there. The BIOS found it
fine and I was able to use and burn DVDs and CDs in Linux (Ubuntu). So, I
knew the problem lied with XP.

After long searches on the interweb I found that this can occur sometimes
after CD/DVD burner software is uninstalled. I hadn't removed any but I had
removed several trial DVR programs and one of them used DVD drives to store
recoreded TV shows. I used the method on microsoft support to delete Upper
and Lower memory from the registry and my DVD drive returned.

However my drive is ONLY listed as a DVD-RAM drive now which prevents it
from being recognized in Roxio. I can still read CDs I just can't burn
anything. Before this problem began the drive was listed as DVD R/RW.

 

[Claymore]

I am having a lot of problems with my DVD drive. The first problem was that
XP MCE simply stopped recognizing that it was even there. The BIOS found it
fine and I was able to use and burn DVDs and CDs in Linux (Ubuntu). So, I
knew the problem lied with XP.

After long searches on the interweb I found that this can occur sometimes
after CD/DVD burner software is uninstalled. I hadn't removed any but I had
removed several trial DVR programs and one of them used DVD drives to store
recoreded TV shows. I used the method on microsoft support to delete Upper
and Lower memory from the registry and my DVD drive returned.

However my drive is ONLY listed as a DVD-RAM drive now which prevents it
from being recognized in Roxio. I can still read CDs I just can't burn
anything. Before this problem began the drive was listed as DVD R/RW.

Hi,

A couple of things:

Check that writing is enabled. Right-click 'My Computer' and click on
Properties.
Under the Recording tab, check that the box 'Enable CD Recording' is
checked.

I know that you deleted the Upper and Loer Filters, but this script
may do a more complete job:

Copy the text below between the dotted lines, but not the dotted lines
themselves. Open Notepad and paste it in. Save the result in a
suitable location as drives.reg - making sure that the default .txt
extension doesn't appear in the file name (Save as type = All Files).
Double-click on the saved .reg file to merge the contents.
Restart.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-
E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
"UpperFilters"=-
"LowerFilters"=-

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdr4_2K]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdralw2k]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdudf]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UdfReadr]

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[Guest]

I thought that I had already deleted those files but I think they were in a
different spot so I ran your registry file to make sure, but it didn’t work.

I am having a lot of problems with my DVD drive. The first problem was that
XP MCE simply stopped recognizing that it was even there. The BIOS found it
fine and I was able to use and burn DVDs and CDs in Linux (Ubuntu). So, I
knew the problem lied with XP.

After long searches on the interweb I found that this can occur sometimes
after CD/DVD burner software is uninstalled. I hadn't removed any but I had
removed several trial DVR programs and one of them used DVD drives to store
recoreded TV shows. I used the method on microsoft support to delete Upper
and Lower memory from the registry and my DVD drive returned.

However my drive is ONLY listed as a DVD-RAM drive now which prevents it
from being recognized in Roxio. I can still read CDs I just can't burn
anything. Before this problem began the drive was listed as DVD R/RW.

Hi,

A couple of things:

Check that writing is enabled. Right-click 'My Computer' and click on
Properties.
Under the Recording tab, check that the box 'Enable CD Recording' is
checked.

I know that you deleted the Upper and Loer Filters, but this script
may do a more complete job:

Copy the text below between the dotted lines, but not the dotted lines
themselves. Open Notepad and paste it in. Save the result in a
suitable location as drives.reg - making sure that the default .txt
extension doesn't appear in the file name (Save as type = All Files).
Double-click on the saved .reg file to merge the contents.
Restart.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-
E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
"UpperFilters"=-
"LowerFilters"=-

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdr4_2K]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdralw2k]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdudf]

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UdfReadr]

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