Sorry but while I agree as to the driver, I'm stumped as I can't find the make, model, details of the host machine. It could be the motherboard chipset driver but it is NOT a DVDRW driver!
Sorry but since I missed the make, model of the PC I'm stumped.
Bob
I fitted a new dvdrw Sony sata oem in vista 64 system, and it was recognised in device manager and explorer, but when I tried to play anything (using winamp and VLC and media player) then it can't find the media (music or films) and the system freezes, and when freed up the drive is no longer recognised until I reboot.
I sent the drive back and bought another this time a Sata Samsung from PCworld. Exactly the same thing occurred. PCworld tested the drive for me and its OK so the problem is my system. I deleted the upper and lower filters in the registry and this has made no difference. I have a CDrom drive which works OK.
I am thinking of getting a PATA DVDRW drive on the IDE bus hoping this will work. But does anyone know what my problem is. There are 4 SATA slots and 3 are used for hard drives with no problem and I have changed the slots about and this made no difference. The SATA cable is good too. I uninstalled the drive and rebooted but this made no difference either.
I tried to reinstall windows but after initially reading the DVD it then later asks me for a driver for it so it looks like it could be a driver problem. SATA drives use windows drivers, so how do I reinstall windows? I did try updating the driver but the message was the driver was OK.
Other people on the net seem to have similar problems but I haven't seen a fix yet apart from the filters above which didn't make any difference.
thanks
Malcolm
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