Hi all, hope someone can help me!!
I've spent the whole day looking online for solutions to this problem and I'm getting close to opening the window and giving my DVD drive a short flying lesson!
Basically the problem is that my DVD drive appears to think it's a CD drive. It will read audio disks, data disks and play some game disks, but as soon as there is any video type thing on it the 'busy' light stays on, the drive letter disappears from 'my computer' and I have to restart the system, pressing the eject button in the split second between start up and the drive deciding it's busy again!
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
DVD drive: Model: DVD-16X OEM316B Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 5.01.2600.2180 (English), 8/4/2004 06:59:52, 49536 bytes
CD-RW drive: Model: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8320B Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 5.01.2600.2180 (English), 8/4/2004 06:59:52, 49536 bytes
Now, to me, this says that both disks are operating with the same drivers, and therefore think they're both CD drives! I've tried updating the driver, only gives options of CD drivers; there's no manufacturers name on the outside of the drive case, so I can't check for drivers on their website...
For a moment, I thought windows support could help me, it listed (among many other symptoms):
Disc label does not appear in My Computer.
The contents of the disc will not display.
Inserting or reading a disc causes the computer to stop responding.
The disc will not eject.
However, they then ignored those symptoms and waffled on about totally unhelpful stuff! I know it's not reading DVD data correctly, but if it's reading other data, surely it's not a problem with the drive? I'm confused, female and blonde, so please make any advise bimbo-friendly!
Many thanks in advance xx
I've spent the whole day looking online for solutions to this problem and I'm getting close to opening the window and giving my DVD drive a short flying lesson!
Basically the problem is that my DVD drive appears to think it's a CD drive. It will read audio disks, data disks and play some game disks, but as soon as there is any video type thing on it the 'busy' light stays on, the drive letter disappears from 'my computer' and I have to restart the system, pressing the eject button in the split second between start up and the drive deciding it's busy again!
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 (2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519)
DVD drive: Model: DVD-16X OEM316B Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 5.01.2600.2180 (English), 8/4/2004 06:59:52, 49536 bytes
CD-RW drive: Model: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8320B Driver: c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdrom.sys, 5.01.2600.2180 (English), 8/4/2004 06:59:52, 49536 bytes
Now, to me, this says that both disks are operating with the same drivers, and therefore think they're both CD drives! I've tried updating the driver, only gives options of CD drivers; there's no manufacturers name on the outside of the drive case, so I can't check for drivers on their website...
For a moment, I thought windows support could help me, it listed (among many other symptoms):
Disc label does not appear in My Computer.
The contents of the disc will not display.
Inserting or reading a disc causes the computer to stop responding.
The disc will not eject.
However, they then ignored those symptoms and waffled on about totally unhelpful stuff! I know it's not reading DVD data correctly, but if it's reading other data, surely it's not a problem with the drive? I'm confused, female and blonde, so please make any advise bimbo-friendly!
Many thanks in advance xx