CD/DVD drive not recognising DVD's

[david_s]

An old-ish computer of mine was playing up so I re-formatted the hard disk and re-installed all of the relevant software, but now the CD/DVD drive will not recognise DVD's. CD's are fine but not data DVD's. Does anyone know what I have done wrong?

The original drivers have long since disappeared, are there any generic drivers that I can download? I am not interested in watching films, but I have some software on DVD that I can't install.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[-DeaDLocK-]

If in a modern flavour of Windows, no drivers are necessary.

Did it only just start acting up the moment you rebuilt?

[jfrf]

some old dvds drives will not recognise copied data dvd's, i have found.
simply try using a newer dvd drive if you have one

[aldi]

Could it just be that disk that's scratched or dirty?

[philthy]

Make sure you've got aspi layers installed.
Click Here to download the installer.

Phil

[david_s]

Running XP so should be modern enough.

The drive recognised data DVD's before I re-formatted the C drive and re-installed XP.

DVD's not scratched, runs perfectly in other machines.

Will try the aspi layers (whatever they may be!).

[aldi]

Is it one that was written using one of those 'drag 'n' drop' writing packages that needs a little bit of in installing to read the disk again?

[david_s]

It won't read any DVD's. The DVD in question contains software I am trying to install, it works fine on other computers.

[aldi]

If you put that DVD drive in another computer, does it read DVD's?

[david_s]

It used to read DVD's in the machine in which it is currently installed. I haven't removed it to try in another machine, if I remove it will be to bin it.

[aldi]

david_s said:

It used to read DVD's in the machine in which it is currently installed. I haven't removed it to try in another machine, if I remove it will be to bin it.

Don't waste a perfectly good coffee cup holder

[kojak]

I've just added a new DVD writer, and now my original DVD Rom wont start/read. Pi$$ed off with computing.