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DVD+/- RW not recogonized as DVD drive anymore
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Posted by: splavoie
I have recently been backing up my DVD's using a software DVDCOPY X Platinum. I went through a few problems at first, but now have it down until recently. Now my drive will not play DVD's, burned or original. I put the disc in the drive and the light turns on but when I go to open it in PowerDVD or Windows Media it wont play, also even if I go to the drive itself under My Computer it says there is no disc in the drive. Now when I put a CD in there, it plays it fine, so I investigated and noticed that the computer now thinks that my DVD drive is a CD drive, I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers, unplugged it and tryed a different slot on the ribbon and tried a new power source, still does not recogonize it as a DVD drive, when the computer loads it calls it a CD-ROM device, but then lists that it is a Sony DVD+- RW drive. Any ideas?
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Have you updated or changed chipset drivers recently? In any case, you might try updating your IDE controller driver. If you updated it recently, going back to the previous driver might remedy the problem.
Posted by: splavoie
Thanks, I'll give it a try tonight. I dont think its the problem however because it was a matter of one day to another that I was able to burn a movie and when the problem came about. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I'm using DVD43Free software to decode the movie to be able to burn it to a blank DVD since the movie industry banned 321 studios from selling that piece of software. I forgot to use DVD43Free when I went to back up my movie and I think it somehow sent a signal back to the DVD laser and affected it...that sounds a bit too much like "big brother always watching", but you never know.
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