>>>>Hi
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>>>>I've got problem with a PC DVD drive.
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>>>>It'll play CDs but doesn't recognise DVDs.
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>>>>I thought maybe the drive was faulty so I bought a new DVD rewriter and put it in the same PC and it has the same problem.
>>>>
>>>>Anyone got any thoughts on what could be going on here ?
>>>>
>>>>At the moment I'n a bit stumped.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Is it possible that you've got a third party driver installed that only recognizes / handles CDs ?
>>
>>Anything is possible .I'll have a look. On the device manager it is entered as the correct DVD drive.
>
>Maybe uninstall /reinstall the driver?
>Vaguely related suggestion here:http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/249525-35-drive-recognizing
>Is it external (USB) or internal drive? What OS? Only asking out of curiosity I'm afraid since I'm not really a hardware guy :-{

Its internal and its Windows XP.

I've reinstalled a couple of times.

I'll follow that link up.
Though I may juts get an external drive and see if that has the problem.

Thanks Viv