DVD-RW drive not recognized under Windows XP

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 by kona0197 | Discussion: Personal Computing

I have decided to start a new thread about this issue rather than further derail the other thread where we were talking about this.

I recently received a new DVD-RW drive courtesy of a friend here. After turning off the computer I removed the old drive. The old drive was the only IDE device on the system. I installed the new drive. The new drive uses the SATA interface.

After powering on the computer I went into the BIOS settings. BIOS confirms the new drive is connected. I am also able to boot of the new drive to bootable CDs and DVDs.

The problem is that Windows XP no longer says I have a DVD-RW drive. I only lists my hard drive and that's all under "My Computer". The new drive is plugged in correctly and runs just fine when I boot up a live Linux DVD. So I assume there is something that can fix this?

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kona0197
Reply #21 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:53 AM

Well I am sure he will be lurking. If he decides to chime in I would be grateful.


Wizard1956
Reply #22 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:53 AM

Make an ISO of the disc with imgburn and load it into a virtual drive using Daemon Tools.


kona0197
Reply #23 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:04 AM

Good suggestion. It would work if I had a working DVD-RW drive to read the disc with. Sadly the old DVD-RW drive will not read the disc.


RedneckDude
Reply #24 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 11:20 AM

kona0197
reply 23
Good suggestion. It would work if I had a working DVD-RW drive to read the disc with. Sadly the old DVD-RW drive will not read the disc.

 

 

I thought your girlfriend had a laptop.


kona0197
Reply #25 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:43 PM

Yeah she does. Getting to use it is a different matter.


DaveRI
Reply #26 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 2:31 PM

Does the drive manufacturer's site say anything about it? Worth a shot.


doortech1
Reply #27 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:40 PM

. This worked for all 3 with no problems. 1. Click Start, then Run, then enter REGEDIT to open the Registry Editor 2. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class entry 3. Under the Class entry, double click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} 4. In the right-hand pane, click ONCE to select the UpperFilters entry 5. Make sure the UpperFilters entry is highlighted, press Delete, then Yes. 6. In the right-hand pane, click ONCE to select the LowerFilters entry 7. Make sure the LowerFilters entry is highlighted, press Delete, then Yes. 8. Close the Registry Editor by clicking File, Exit.

 

 

 

Found this if you want to try it.


Wizard1956
Reply #28 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 3:49 PM

dt1, the reg keys file I sent does all that in far fewer steps.


kona0197
Reply #29 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:37 PM

doortech1
reply 27
In the right-hand pane, click ONCE to select the LowerFilters entry 7. Make sure the LowerFilters entry is highlighted, press Delete, then Yes. 8. Close the Registry Editor by clicking File, Exit.

That's the issue. There is no entry for "LowerFilters".


Phoon
Reply #30 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 8:46 PM

Here's a link to a MS Fixit that may or may not help. Hope it does.

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

 


RedneckDude
Reply #31 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 9:03 PM

Beat you to it, Phoon. On the other thread. No good.  


Uvah
Reply #32 Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:25 PM

That Windows Repair app Doc featured not too long ago. Would that be of any help?


doortech1
Reply #33 Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:23 AM

Wizard1956
reply 28
dt1, the reg keys file I sent does all that in far fewer steps.

 

I will have to take your word as what I uploaded was just something I found. I could not tell you what it means, what it does, it was some post laying around. I am not sure what a registry is! LOL

 

 

Kona. you have a day or so left. reinstall xp with the drive hooked up, maybe it will come to life. A last xp install for the road .


WinMonster2
Reply #34 Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:28 AM

Look in your BIOS for a section called "boot devices"      on my xp rig I had to go to this section and set the rom drive to sata as it was recognized as ide. Just something to look at not sure if that is your problem.


kona0197
Reply #35 Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:49 PM

So I found a solution. I booted into my Ubuntu Linux installation, ran a command on the command line and made a ISO from the Command & Conquer DVD since the burner works under Linux. Transferred that ISO file over to my Windows partition and used Daemon Tools to mount and install the game. After two patches the games is running fine. Don't know why I didn't think of this before. Thanks everyone for the help!


Uvah
Reply #36 Friday, January 25, 2013 4:45 AM

Good to hear KONA. One step closer. I got 6 days left before the funds are here. Looks like you'll be multi-booting. Three OS's. Nice! I'll wait till your rig is up and running smoothly before I think of more silliness to say. Have a ball!


Wizard1956
Reply #37 Friday, January 25, 2013 10:38 AM

YW. kona. The great thing about virtual discs is that you never get virtual scratches. Plus the ISO is alway there to be loaded, no rummaging around looking for the physical disc to load it. I have one DVD RW drive, and one virtual drive at all times, I gave it the drive letter :V so I could easily tell which is which.

For anyone who may want to go this route, here are the links again, both programs are free.

Make an ISO of the disc with imgburn and load it into a virtual drive using Daemon Tools.


Uvah
Reply #38 Friday, January 25, 2013 10:48 AM

Hey Wiz....I've heard of virtual drives before. Do they act like real drives? I mean can you install things on them? Just curious.


Wizard1956
Reply #39 Friday, January 25, 2013 11:01 AM

Uvah
reply 38
Hey Wiz....I've heard of virtual drives before. Do they act like real drives? I mean can you install things on them? Just curious.

Absolutely.You can mount an ISO (image file) into a virtual drive just like it was a actual DVD or Cd and install, play or open it.


Uvah
Reply #40 Friday, January 25, 2013 11:50 AM

Wow! I learned something new. This place is a goldmine! Thanks Wiz.


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