Windows won't recognize CDs

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cbrack

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Hello,

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
 
gonna uninstall my GameDrive... Might be conflicting with my other drive. I'll post on whether that works or not.
 
cbrack said:
gonna uninstall my GameDrive... Might be conflicting with my other drive. I'll post on whether that works or not.
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leave it, it's probably not that, does it recognize games, disks you've written, disks you've NOT written, bought CD's, audio CD's
 
donkey42 said:
leave it, it's probably not that, does it recognize games, disks you've written, disks you've NOT written, bought CD's, audio CD's
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it doesn't recognize any cd's... i've tested all types. it only recognizes them if i restart with a cd in the drive.
 
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)
 
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....~!
 
Karanislove said:
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

just had a thought, try the drive on another pc
 
cbrack said:
Hello,

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.

Hope this helps!
 
nanco said:
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...

Thanks so far for your help everyone...

If anyone else has ideas let me know.

Regards,

Chris
 
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