Guest teh XKnight Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 I am having a lot of problems with my DVD drive. The first problem was that XP MCE simply stopped recognizing that it was even there. The BIOS found it fine and I was able to use and burn DVDs and CDs in Linux (Ubuntu). So, I knew the problem lied with XP. After long searches on the interweb I found that this can occur sometimes after CD/DVD burner software is uninstalled. I hadn't removed any but I had removed several trial DVR programs and one of them used DVD drives to store recoreded TV shows. I used the method on microsoft support to delete Upper and Lower memory from the registry and my DVD drive returned. However my drive is ONLY listed as a DVD-RAM drive now which prevents it from being recognized in Roxio. I can still read CDs I just can't burn anything. Before this problem began the drive was listed as DVD R/RW.
Guest Claymore Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: Seires of DVD Problems (Hardware) On Aug 21, 4:28 pm, teh XKnight <tehXKni...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I am having a lot of problems with my DVD drive. The first problem was that > XP MCE simply stopped recognizing that it was even there. The BIOS found it > fine and I was able to use and burn DVDs and CDs in Linux (Ubuntu). So, I > knew the problem lied with XP. > > After long searches on the interweb I found that this can occur sometimes > after CD/DVD burner software is uninstalled. I hadn't removed any but I had > removed several trial DVR programs and one of them used DVD drives to store > recoreded TV shows. I used the method on microsoft support to delete Upper > and Lower memory from the registry and my DVD drive returned. > > However my drive is ONLY listed as a DVD-RAM drive now which prevents it > from being recognized in Roxio. I can still read CDs I just can't burn > anything. Before this problem began the drive was listed as DVD R/RW. Hi, A couple of things: Check that writing is enabled. Right-click 'My Computer' and click on Properties. Under the Recording tab, check that the box 'Enable CD Recording' is checked. I know that you deleted the Upper and Loer Filters, but this script may do a more complete job: Copy the text below between the dotted lines, but not the dotted lines themselves. Open Notepad and paste it in. Save the result in a suitable location as drives.reg - making sure that the default .txt extension doesn't appear in the file name (Save as type = All Files). Double-click on the saved .reg file to merge the contents. Restart. ----------------------- cut after this line ----------------------------- Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965- E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}] "UpperFilters"=- "LowerFilters"=- [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdr4_2K] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdralw2k] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdudf] [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UdfReadr] ------------------------cut before this line -----------------------------
Guest teh XKnight Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: Seires of DVD Problems (Hardware) I thought that I had already deleted those files but I think they were in a different spot so I ran your registry file to make sure, but it didn’t work. "Claymore" wrote: > On Aug 21, 4:28 pm, teh XKnight <tehXKni...@discussions.microsoft.com> > wrote: > > I am having a lot of problems with my DVD drive. The first problem was that > > XP MCE simply stopped recognizing that it was even there. The BIOS found it > > fine and I was able to use and burn DVDs and CDs in Linux (Ubuntu). So, I > > knew the problem lied with XP. > > > > After long searches on the interweb I found that this can occur sometimes > > after CD/DVD burner software is uninstalled. I hadn't removed any but I had > > removed several trial DVR programs and one of them used DVD drives to store > > recoreded TV shows. I used the method on microsoft support to delete Upper > > and Lower memory from the registry and my DVD drive returned. > > > > However my drive is ONLY listed as a DVD-RAM drive now which prevents it > > from being recognized in Roxio. I can still read CDs I just can't burn > > anything. Before this problem began the drive was listed as DVD R/RW. > > Hi, > > A couple of things: > > Check that writing is enabled. Right-click 'My Computer' and click on > Properties. > Under the Recording tab, check that the box 'Enable CD Recording' is > checked. > > I know that you deleted the Upper and Loer Filters, but this script > may do a more complete job: > > Copy the text below between the dotted lines, but not the dotted lines > themselves. Open Notepad and paste it in. Save the result in a > suitable location as drives.reg - making sure that the default .txt > extension doesn't appear in the file name (Save as type = All Files). > Double-click on the saved .reg file to merge the contents. > Restart. > > ----------------------- cut after this line > ----------------------------- > > Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965- > E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}] > "UpperFilters"=- > "LowerFilters"=- > > [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdr4_2K] > > [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdralw2k] > > [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Cdudf] > > [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UdfReadr] > > ------------------------cut before this line > ----------------------------- > > >
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