loaded_chambers
Geek Trainee
I'm trying to put my old Pioneer DVR-A05 in my Dad's computer but it won't read blank DVD-R'/RW's. When you click on it in My Computer it just says 0.00 for free space and switches from DVD-RW drive to CD drive. I had this problem while I had it and found out that the Windows update "Q320174:This update addresses several CD Burning issues in Windows XP" was the problem on my machine. I had SP1 installed before I figured it out(Even sent it back to Pioneer for repairs)and I had to do a fresh install of WinXP without that specific update for it to work on my machine. My dads computer is a newer Sony Vaio(P4 2.6, 512MB of PC2100, 1X DVD/RW drive, XP Home) and it comes with system repair disk that formats the drives and restores the comp to factory setting. I used it and it took out his SP1/most WinXP updates but the one I was trying to avoid must be integrated in his version of Windows or something. So I was wondering if there's a way to manually delete it off his comp so I can stop getting called and bitched at everyday to get it to work. I looked in the add/remove programs but it's not listed. I know it's gotta be the same problem cuz it's doing the same things it did on mine. DVD movies, CD's, CD\RW's features can all be used. Just can't read blanks.
