DVD drive does not recognize DVD's...

and now, does not even call itself a DVD drive but a CD-ROM... It is not something that I installed or anything like that, but a pre installed part that came with my computer (sony vaio - VGC-RA710G). I have had to format the computer, but I used the recovery cd (note: the recovery cd was a DVD) that was for my model. I had no problem with it until just recently, I can no longer burn dvd's.

Thanks,
Jason

 

Hello Jason,

Can you burn cd's?

Is this with or W/O SP2?

What's the burning software?

Your title appears misleading - you've READ a DVD and say you can't BURN a DVD.

Regards - Charles

 

I've never had the problem you're describeing so I can't say if viable or not but I just checked in my device manager and if I right click on a CD or DVD drive I have the option to uninstall. I'd do so just to see if windows would go back to recognising it as a DVD drive. I would first set a restore point if your running a version of windows that supports it. Not 100% sure it would be a factor but I would probably at least backup my registry.

It may very well be that thour burning software gets it's drive info from windows. Therefore, if windows only sees a CD then the software would see the same.

If that does nothing than my next step (wondering if he's going to get yelled at for this... ) would be to open the case and pull the cables from the drive. I would then reboot without the drive and shut down. Reconnect the drive and see what happens. It just may be that windows will see it as a new device and set it up from scratch.

Just as a thought... I run win 2000 pro, not XP. If XP is being run would it be possible to go back to a restore point when the drive was known to work, if available, to kinda check the drive and then go back to a present restore point?

Jay