DVD drive shows up as CD drive
The Todal
appropriate forum if they don't know the answer.
I have a Dell Dimension 2400 which came with a CD drive. I replaced that
drive with a DVD recordable drive manufactured by Philips. For a long time
it worked without a hitch, but now it shows up as a CD-recordable drive and
the software won't let me copy DVDs. There is no way - that I can find - to
select a different driver for it, one that is suitable for a DVD recorder.
I would guess that the solution may involve tweaking the registry in some
way....?
I'd buy a new DVD drive but only if I could be sure it would solve the
problem.
Ben Myers
If it is with your DVD/CD burning software, something definitely is amiss with
the software and/or the underlying registry data.
Download one or both freeware CD/DVD burning utilities, IMGBURN and CDBurnerXP
(previously CDBurnerXPPro). Both of these install easily, have few
dependencies on registry data, and work with just about any brand.
I would assume that the CD burning software now in your system is a cobbled up
and somewhat limited commercial package like Roxio, Nero or Sonic. All of
these muck around in the registry a lot and they are generally tied to the brand
of CD/DVD burner or the motherboard BIOS... Ben Myers
The Todal
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> "shows up as a CD-recordable drive". Please explain WHERE it shows up
> that way.
In "My Computer".
> If it is with your DVD/CD burning software, something definitely is amiss
> with
> the software and/or the underlying registry data.
In the burning software (I have tried both Roxio and Nero) it shows up as a
recordable CD drive and doesn't recognise DVDs. It used to recognise them,
but no longer.
>
> Download one or both freeware CD/DVD burning utilities, IMGBURN and
> CDBurnerXP
> (previously CDBurnerXPPro). Both of these install easily, have few
> dependencies on registry data, and work with just about any brand.
Thanks, I'll give it a try.
RnR
wrote:
>I daresay this has come up before and maybe someone can direct me to a more
This sounds like a driver mishap unless the drive went bad (I never
heard of a bad drive doing this behavior tho but maybe someone else
can help here if they have). I guess you could check the device
manager to see and/or Belarc to see what it lists for hardware. By
any chance did you mess with the Bios settings??
Assuming not a hardware or bios problem, the simplest solution would
be to use your backups if they go back far enough before this happened
but I assume this solution isn't available to you. ALWAYS make
backups for the future because other things WILL happen too. Next
you might try a restore point if they can go back far enough to a
correct functioning system. After this, I might try the mfgr's web
site to see if they have specific drivers for your drive and operating
system. Last, if no luck, I'd use google for your make/model drive
and OS for replacement drivers.
Jean Rosenfeld
about Vista).
Possibly the drive is running in PIO mode instead of Ultra DMA mode. This
can happen if it has had a few bad blocks. Check that in device manager
(most likely the dvd drive will be connected to the secondary channel of IDE
controller, double click on that, to open its properties, advanced settings
tab).
If in PIO mode, reset to Ultra DMA mode. I find the easiest way is to
uninstall the channel, restart, let windows find it and it will reinstall.
Other methods, see:
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I had a Pioneer DVD drive that was working fine for years, then
started showing up as a CD drive instead and being quirky, not
recognising at all in Nero.
I had already reinstalled the drive itself and attempted to rollback
and reinstall the drivers... to no avail.
But now, thanks to this thread, I deleted my second channel and
rebooted. Shazam!
On Jul 26, 8:37 pm, "Jean Rosenfeld"
<jean.rosenf...@nospam.tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> You dohn't say whether you have XP or Vista. This is for XP (don't know
> about Vista).
> Possibly the drive is running in PIO mode instead of Ultra DMA mode. This
> can happen if it has had a few bad blocks. Check that in device manager
> (most likely the dvd drive will be connected to the secondary channel of IDE
> controller, double click on that, to open its properties, advanced settings
> tab).
> If in PIO mode, reset to Ultra DMA mode. I find the easiest way is to
> uninstall the channel, restart, let windows find it and it will reinstall.
> Other methods, see:
>
> http://winhlp.com/node/10
>
> "The Todal" <deadmail...@beeb.net> wrote in message