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    Vista Drivers

    Vista seems to think that my DVD-ROM drive is a CD-Drive. Won't let me run DVDs anymore, even though it was the drive the Vista disk was in whilst installing. After install it jsut goes nope not a dvd drive. So does anyone else know if I can manually get around this? or knwo where I can get some drivers from?

    There is no manufacturer name on the drive outside. If I becomes apparent that i'll need one I'll open up the comp another time and see if there is a name on the hidden part of the drive.

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    Probably not worth the hassle, a DVD Drive is no more than a tenner now.


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    In xp I'd go to hardware profiles and choose update driver for the dvd rom (might be shown as CD in your case), then manually choose a DVD driver. Not sure on Vista procedure though.

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    Try this:

    Start > right click Computer > properties > device manager > DVD/CD-ROM drives > right click you drive > properties > driver > update driver

    Alternatively, try the manufacturers website .

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajbrun View Post
    Try this:

    Start > right click Computer > properties > device manager > DVD/CD-ROM drives > right click you drive > properties > driver > update driver

    Alternatively, try the manufacturers website .
    I'm not a total plonker ^_^

    I've done exactly that and no luck just says you have the latest drivers installed.

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    optical drives are prone to dying - usually just one part of them, such as CD-reading ability, or DVD writing, or whatever

    the timing could well be pure coincidence

    unfortunately, unless you can boot from a different drive into a different os, there's no way to be certain whether it's a hardware or software error

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spitfire01 View Post
    I'm not a total plonker ^_^

    I've done exactly that and no luck just says you have the latest drivers installed.
    So there's no way to manually select driver like I suggested under xp?

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    DVD drive might just be at the end of its life

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    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    optical drives are prone to dying - usually just one part of them, such as CD-reading ability, or DVD writing, or whatever

    the timing could well be pure coincidence

    unfortunately, unless you can boot from a different drive into a different os, there's no way to be certain whether it's a hardware or software error
    If you have access to another PC, that will be easy enough to test.

    Download a knoppix ISO image burn it to a CD, and test if you can boot from it.

    When the boot menu comes up, press F3, and enter 'knoppix tomem'. The contents of the CD will be copied to ram and you will be able to use the drive within knoppix. (You need at least 1Gb of RAM to use this trick).

    BTW, most BIOSes will report the make and model of your DVD drive during the POST, and in the BIOS config screens.

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    I booted into XP and for some reaon both my drives are listed as CD Drives not DVD and DVDRW :|
    I'm gonna leave it for now as I have atleast 1 dvd reading drive at the minute.

    And I looked in XP and I saw no where that would let me "choose" a specific driver.

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    The basic driver cdrom.sys in system 32 in both xp and vista (slightly different revision for vista) support all types of optical drive from the basic cd and cd r/w to dvd r/w and dvd ram. It could well be the driver has become currupt. My vista installation went a bit haywire a few weeks back whereby my dvd r/w suddenly became a cd rom drive and then completed disappeared from within 'Computer' a few days later. There is a registry fix for this issue on the MS website. Could well be what you are experiencing!

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    any chances you can link me to it? or give me something specific to search for there? as the site is a mess at the best of times.

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    OF course sorry for not doing so before. If you right click on the device in device manager and click properties. Does it say the driver is currupt or missing out of interest? Granted the following link is about restorting optical drive support after removing a cd burning application, but it helped me and my friends with some issues

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/

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