Windows not seeing drive as DVD R/W

[Guest mcoffee41]

I just put in a Sony DRU-710a DVD R/W as a master disc drive. Windows saw

the drive and installed a basic CD-Rom driver for the device upon the first

boot up. It will not see any DVD disc though, only regular cd's. Sony does

not provide any drivers for it, so I'm not sure how to get Windows to see it

as a DVD-Rom Drive.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

Mike

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Windows not seeing drive as DVD R/W

 

Do you have DVD software? Windows 2000 hasn't a clue about DVD's

 

mcoffee41 wrote:

> I just put in a Sony DRU-710a DVD R/W as a master disc drive. Windows saw

> the drive and installed a basic CD-Rom driver for the device upon the first

> boot up. It will not see any DVD disc though, only regular cd's. Sony does

> not provide any drivers for it, so I'm not sure how to get Windows to see it

> as a DVD-Rom Drive.

>

> Any help would be appreciated.

>

> Mike

[Guest mcoffee41]

Re: Windows not seeing drive as DVD R/W

 

The only software is the Nero Burning software, but that isn't really

designed to help windows see it as a DVD drive.

 

Thanks,

 

Mike

 

"Bob I" wrote:

> Do you have DVD software? Windows 2000 hasn't a clue about DVD's

>

> mcoffee41 wrote:

> > I just put in a Sony DRU-710a DVD R/W as a master disc drive. Windows saw

> > the drive and installed a basic CD-Rom driver for the device upon the first

> > boot up. It will not see any DVD disc though, only regular cd's. Sony does

> > not provide any drivers for it, so I'm not sure how to get Windows to see it

> > as a DVD-Rom Drive.

> >

> > Any help would be appreciated.

> >

> > Mike

>

>

[Guest Sid Elbow]

Re: Windows not seeing drive as DVD R/W

 

mcoffee41 wrote:

> I just put in a Sony DRU-710a DVD R/W as a master disc drive. Windows saw

> the drive and installed a basic CD-Rom driver for the device upon the first

> boot up. It will not see any DVD disc though, only regular cd's. Sony does

> not provide any drivers for it, so I'm not sure how to get Windows to see it

> as a DVD-Rom Drive.

 

In my experience, most manufacturers *don't* provide a specific driver

for their drives - they rely on Windows built-in drivers. Try opening up

its properties in Device Manager and see what the driver details are.

For My DVD R/W they are:

 

cdrom.sys

redbook.sys

storprop.dll

 

Which actually look like CDROM drivers but the device does work fine as

a DVD R/W.

 

If you still have a problem you could try reinstalling the driver from

Device Manager and checking out *all* available drivers.

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Windows not seeing drive as DVD R/W

 

Have you asked them here on the "chat link"?

http://sony.storagesupport.com/

 

mcoffee41 wrote:

> The only software is the Nero Burning software, but that isn't really

> designed to help windows see it as a DVD drive.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Mike

>

> "Bob I" wrote:

>

>

>>Do you have DVD software? Windows 2000 hasn't a clue about DVD's

>>

>>mcoffee41 wrote:

>>

>>>I just put in a Sony DRU-710a DVD R/W as a master disc drive. Windows saw

>>>the drive and installed a basic CD-Rom driver for the device upon the first

>>>boot up. It will not see any DVD disc though, only regular cd's. Sony does

>>>not provide any drivers for it, so I'm not sure how to get Windows to see it

>>>as a DVD-Rom Drive.

>>>

>>>Any help would be appreciated.

>>>

>>>Mike

>>

>>

[Guest Colon Terminus]

Re: Windows not seeing drive as DVD R/W

 

 

"mcoffee41" <mcoffee41@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:FBEEDD09-EF6F-493B-A590-505A082DBBA9@microsoft.com...

> The only software is the Nero Burning software, but that isn't really

> designed to help windows see it as a DVD drive.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Mike

>

> "Bob I" wrote:

>

> > Do you have DVD software? Windows 2000 hasn't a clue about DVD's

> >

> > mcoffee41 wrote:

> > > I just put in a Sony DRU-710a DVD R/W as a master disc drive. Windows

saw

> > > the drive and installed a basic CD-Rom driver for the device upon the

first

> > > boot up. It will not see any DVD disc though, only regular cd's.

Sony does

> > > not provide any drivers for it, so I'm not sure how to get Windows to

see it

> > > as a DVD-Rom Drive.

> > >

> > > Any help would be appreciated.

> > >

> > > Mike

> >

> >

 

Mike Said:

"The only software is the Nero Burning software"

 

That's probably the source of your problem. My guess is that you have an OEM

version of Nero that doesn't recognize your Sony drive.

 

Windows 2K installs the same set of drivers for CD or DVD. You can't tell by

looking at the installed drivers that Windows sees your Sony drive as a

CD-ROM.

 

 

 

 

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[Guest sherwindu]

Re: Windows not seeing drive as DVD R/W

 

Sony's web site recommends that you install Service Pack 3 for this drive. Have

you

done that yet?

 

mcoffee41 wrote:

> I just put in a Sony DRU-710a DVD R/W as a master disc drive. Windows saw

> the drive and installed a basic CD-Rom driver for the device upon the first

> boot up. It will not see any DVD disc though, only regular cd's. Sony does

> not provide any drivers for it, so I'm not sure how to get Windows to see it

> as a DVD-Rom Drive.

>

> Any help would be appreciated.

>

> Mike