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Strange Problem with DVD RW Drive

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  • 28-08-2009 9:00pm
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    Gerb68
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭


    I'm working on a system that recognises the DVD RW Drive in Bios. When I enter XP it is seen in My Computer and Device Manager with the correct Driver installed. The thing is when I try to see the contents of the Disc in explorer it shows nothing.
    When I insert a Disc I can hear it loading but it then stops. Believing that the Drive was the problem I replaced it with a working DVD RW Drive and I also replaced the IDE ribbon cable. The problem still persisted. Now I'm thinking its an OS problem. I am truly stumped.

    The Drive will also open in explorer when it has no disc inserted. I also inserted a Vista disc and it ran ok but it wont run anything else no matter what type of disc.

    Anbody got any ideas about this? It is very strange.


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    #2
    massy086
    Registered Users Posts: 2,845 ✭✭✭massy086


    try a vista repair or even easy,r try a system restore to wen it was working ok


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    Gerb68
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭Gerb68


    Its XP and its a fresh install.
    I only tried a Vista Disc to see if it would run.
    I tried all sorts of discs and Vista was the only one that ran.


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    Effluo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭Effluo


    sounds like you'll be needing to do fresh install of xp then


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    Gerb68
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭Gerb68


    XP Disc wont run.


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    Effluo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭Effluo


    Gerb68 wrote: »
    XP Disc wont run.

    But you can boot from it right?

    When you start up the pc press the key that selects "boot device" If it's recognised in the bios then this should work


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