DVD rom drive failure

[Thor.]

Hello i was wondering if anyone knows any solutions to Dvd drive failures, every time i try to install the drivers through system manager it fails each time, i wonder i haven't played much with my pc lately for games that is and i just realized it now. I think it could be from that virus that went through the nexus lately, may have disabled the drivers for my dvd drive. Lol funny enough the floppy drive is working ok :teehee: ..

 

I did a scan and nothing came up.. Scratches head???

 

Although it seems to alive and kicken, it has power and such, but it fails to install the drivers, I think its not a failure in its self.

May have to take it out and try it on another pc first to see if it is a true dvd rom failure.

 

Don't want to waste money on something that could be fixed.

 

whats really going through my head :whistling:

 

Woot if it is i might get myself a blu ray player, I've been waiting for one anyways lol :blink: .

[scrivener07]

can blueray players read and record on dvd? I might get one soon if thats the case. My cdrom drive recently killed itself.

[Thor.]

Yes they can read dvd's just fine, multi purpose they are. Future proof as well.

 

I'm trying to find a multi purpose blu ray with a 22x speed dvd drive, can't seem to find any at that speed.

 

I'm still on the hunt

 

I may have to settle with this..

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827136195&cm_re=blu_ray_burner-_-27-136-195-_-Product

[paganwannbe]

Before you spend the 80 some odd dollars on the blue-ray, get Wubi and update it. Then do two things try and use the DVD-ROM it should work if not it's a most likely a hardware problem. if it works try to download klamAV and scan your whole computer, if you can get it to work and you use klam watch out for false positives if your useing windows xp sp3 it will post 3 Trojans and 15 broken at least

[Thor.]

I don't use xp, i use Windows 7 pro 64bit, but i don't think its a virus issue because i already did a full scan with Kaspersky and it came up with nothing.

 

Hey thanks for the Linux emulator, i was looking for something like that..

[paganwannbe]

No problem. I don't know anything about false positives on win 7, I'm to cheap and comfortable with xp pro to get it.

Hope you don't have to shell out anything yet.

[Thor.]

Windows 7 is worth every penny, has much better protection then xp ever did.

 

Hmm the problem thickens..Seems like i am not alone on the subject..

 

Its not a hardware failure, its a windows failure..

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/171067-32-drive-drive-detected

 

May have to get my friend to help me on this one, One thing i hate is messing around with is the registry :confused:

He also does tech support for a living.

[gormonk]

go through ya bios to install the drivers :thumbsup: also try doing a cleen install of 7 or clearing out the registry, as for blueray disk drives grab one of these or these and ya sweet

 

so good luck with the diver issue

[paganwannbe]

cleaning out the registry with a program that's not the windows disk cleaner is risky business.The chances of it doing harm is far worse the doing minimal good .

One more thing are you saying ubuntu can use the DVD-ROM? If not try swapping out your cd/DVD players and see if it's a wire problem they are not meant to last.

[evermore]

You should narrow down the problem to either hardware or drivers.

 

Test your dvd drive in a known working system.

Test a known working dvd drive in your system.

 

Then go from there :) gl to you sir!