As of right now, if I boot my computer with a windows disc in, windows will recognize a cd. However, if I boot normally, or take out a cd and put another one in, windows won’t recognize the cd. Everything shows as working properly. I have the drive hooked up as a slave to the hard drive, and I do have a virtual drive program (didn’t know if maybe it was interfering).
My drive is a LiteOn DVDRW SHM-165P6S… Shows up as DVD-RAM Drive(D:)
The virtual drive is showing up as a CDROM drive, and its called FgF-Tech CDDVD+tech-200x SCSI CdRom Device.
Thank you in advance, any help is much appreciated.
additionally, when i try to cd to it in command prompt it tells me that ‘the device is not ready’… i’ve never had a problem as wierd as this.
i was going to try to pop the windows cd and do a repair, but i wanted to avoid doing that because i have some modified system files for my themes. (and yes… the problem occurred before the modifications)
[QUOTE=Karanislove]
SO you have two DVD drives…One is slave under HDD and other one??
You are getting this problem from both of them.
One easy thing you can do is system restore…~!
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I only have one DVD RAM drive as a slave to my HDD. The other drive i mentioned was a virtual drive that was set up by software that came with my mobo. I uninstalled the gamedrive just to see what would happen, and that did not fix the problem.
for a good example of my problem:
I just tried to pop in a data dvd and it didn’t work so i popped in the windows install cd. It didn’t detect it like before, so i restarted, and it asked if i wanted to boot from cd. I continued to load windows normally and when everything was loaded i checked My Computer. It showed the windows cd, and i was able to put the data dvd in and view the contents.
right, i’m about out of ideas,
borrow another DVD-RAM drive (preferably the same make & model as yours) and see if that works
or try setting the drive as master then slave on the secondary IDE channel
As of right now, if I boot my computer with a windows disc in, windows will recognize a cd. However, if I boot normally, or take out a cd and put another one in, windows won’t recognize the cd. Everything shows as working properly. I have the drive hooked up as a slave to the hard drive, and I do have a virtual drive program (didn’t know if maybe it was interfering).
My drive is a LiteOn DVDRW SHM-165P6S… Shows up as DVD-RAM Drive(D:)
The virtual drive is showing up as a CDROM drive, and its called FgF-Tech CDDVD+tech-200x SCSI CdRom Device.
Thank you in advance, any help is much appreciated.
Regards,
Chris
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I actually had a similar problem not so long ago, only I have a Writemaster DVD+RW (Samsung?).
I fixed it by running it off a seperate IDE cable as opposed to having it as a slave to my HDD.
I no longer use the software that came with the DVD+RW drive as I also had problems with the virtual CD drive it created (a few unexplained blue screens). Ever since I stopped using it, I’ve had no problems at all.
[QUOTE=nanco]
I actually had a similar problem not so long ago, only I have a Writemaster DVD+RW (Samsung?).
I fixed it by running it off a seperate IDE cable as opposed to having it as a slave to my HDD.
I no longer use the software that came with the DVD+RW drive as I also had problems with the virtual CD drive it created (a few unexplained blue screens). Ever since I stopped using it, I’ve had no problems at all.
Hope this helps!
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I would do that if i could, however i don’t have another IDE port on my motherboard. The newest motherboards don’t really support multiple IDE, as they now have SATA… And I didn’t feel like buying a new SATA drive, because I had already replaced a hdd after a crash… Sooo, now i’m stuck with having to connect the dvd ram drive as a slave. Bleh…