Bd-rom

[Lilliana Adames]

Ihave a pavilion dv7-1070ev and upgrade from windows vista home premium 32bit to Windows 7 home premium 64bit.The laptop came with the optical drive Sony Optiarc BD Rom BC-5500S with Firmware version 1.83.The problem is that the bd-rom is not reading blu ray disks. When i put in CD's/DVD's everything is fine -> drive starts to spin up and a little later the disc is readable/available in windows. When i put in a BluRay disc -> drive just makes a very short silent spin effort (to identify disc?),and no disc is available in windows. When i double click my drive icon (in my computer) it pops up a window asking me to insert a disc.Note that it is the first time I put blu-ray disk to watch blu-ray movie.I have never used the bd-rom when the laptop had windows vista.

When going to W7 I found that I have to delete all partitions on the drive for W7 to run properly. Leaving the old Vista recovery partition on the drive or creating a new partition with in Vista to install W7 on will also cause problems.

thank you for the reply. i bought a new hard disk and i made a clean install of windows 7 . the new one replaced the old disk that had windows vista by manufacturer.No partition.The intel chipset driver is valid.Also the laptop has the latest bios.The problem is not solved.

I wonder if the problem is software or harware and why hp don't give a firmware update like sony.Do you know exactly how the bd-rom works;if you put a disk do you need software to see the content(name of the disk,capacity GB etc) on windows;Dvd-rom don't need software.

I installed a Blu-ray reader in my G61, which was never meant for one. I uninstalled all the Blu-ray software and Windows still saw the disc of "Avatar", I could even click on it and see the files. So the answer to that is no, you do not need software for Windows to see the movie.

I am going to keep picking away at this, but it looks like the Sony reader will not work in W7, even though Microsoft says it's compatible. Here's another thread with no solution, note that in the first post, the guy has a Sony as well.

Hi was there any resolution on this problem? I've had this issue on my DV7 for a long time. The system came with win7 64bit/quickplay and the blu-ray worked fine. I had to reinstall the system a year or so later and used win7 64bit as well however I've yet to get blu-ray to ever work. DVD's work just fine.

You have to uninstall QuickPlay and all Power DVD products (don't use QuickPlay anymore, it's outdated and it will not be updated as it's been long discontinued). There is also a Power DVD folder(s) that needs to be deleted as well.

The other thing that worries me is your Sony drive, I have had many people here that I can't get the Sony drive to read Blu-ray's. I don't know if its firmware is out of date (there is no firmware update) or if the new updated Blu-ray players have become incompatible.

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