>>>>>Hi
>>>>>
>>>>>I've got problem with a PC DVD drive.
>>>>>
>>>>>It'll play CDs but doesn't recognise DVDs.
>>>>>
>>>>>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.
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>>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 :-{
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>Its internal and its Windows XP.
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>I've reinstalled a couple of times.
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>I'll follow that link up.
>Though I may juts get an external drive and see if that has the problem.
>
>Thanks Viv
Western Digital makes some nice external hard drives. After losing a lot of valuable data 3 or 4 years ago I went the belt and braces route. An unattended backup program backs up my hard drive to an external HD every night. If my main computer takes it in the shorts, the data is not lost. I also subscribe to a remote backup site for $5/month in case of fire or other catastrophe. The one I use is Carbonite; there are others. The first time around convinced me there are things on my computer I don't want to lose.
PS -- I hesitate to even mention this but I believe Carbonite offers a referral bonus ;-)
http://www.carbonite.com/en/defaultUPDATE: Redhead not included ;-)
