Vista not reading DVD-ROM

[ragrillo]

few weeks ago, my Vista stopped reading DVD-ROM. Everything else seems to
work fine (for Vista). I can not pinpoint the problem to any specific
program I might have installed or unistalled. The problem is not the
hardware: I have two DVD drives and I can;t read DVD-ROM with any of them;
yet, they read CD and video DVD without a problem. Nor the DVD's: they can
be read in XP. Vista acknowledges that there is something in the drive: I
can see the icon of the volume, and if you click Properties, it shows the DVD
is full. But if I click Open or Explore, it shows as an empty folder and it
even asks to "click and drag files" as if I had a clean DVD-R in the drive.
I've tried with several that used to work fine from different publishers and
is all the same. Trying to read the DVD sometimes cuases the OS to crask to
a blue screen with some gibberish, dumps memory and restarts. I've tried
starting in safe mode (no drivers, processes or services) and nothing. I
have not firewall or anti-virus. Upgraded to SP1 and no solution. I've been
to Microsofy Help and not even a hint of the problem. Tried the regedit
deleting Upper and Lower Limits and nothing. I am desperate. I really don't
want to have to reinstall this crappy, good for nothing OS. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help!! As usual, us customers are left out to fend
by ourselves by Microsoft. Vista is such a mediocre product. How much I
regret not having an Apple!

 

[Alan]

Hi,
I installed SP1 with no problems I can't really say the machine is working
better/worse, faster/slower, much the same really, but one thing I have
noticed.
I do a lot of video editing with necessarily large files as they originate
from DV camcorder tapes. These files are constantly going to and fro
external hard drives.
Before installing SP1, files that I'd deleted from the machine after
transferring them to one of the external hard drives would still appear to
be on the machine. If I did a search for .avi or .wmv for instance, these
files would appear even though they'd been deleted. If I tried to open one
it would tell me it couldn't be opened as Windows couldn't find it
(obviously). This led me to rebuilding the index every two weeks or so, a
tedious business as anyone who's done it will know, it takes a long, long
time.
After SP1 this doesn't seem to happen anymore, if I delete a file it appears
to be gone for good.
Was this one of known problems that SP1 was designed to rectify? I had tried
to find out why this was happening some time ago but I couldn't get much
information on it.
Regards,
Alan.

 

[Alan]

Apologies,
This was meant to be a new thread, I mistakenly sent as a reply to your
query,
Sorry again,
Alan.