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[itaewonguy]

so I have installed the burners.. and let the computer find new hardware
that was all cool.. I put in a dvd to see if the drive works and it played the movie.. so far so good.. check my my computer and it reads as
F:/DVD/RAM Drive GREAT!!

take out the movie and try another disk..

and NO!!
now my computer reads.. CD DRIVE F:/
try to double click on it. and get a message..

F:/is not accessible
The I/O opertation has been aborted becuase of either a thread exit or an application request..


so I tried to look in device manager and yes the DVD rom is there..
so I uninstalled the drive and shut down.. and let the computer found new hardware again..
and yes now it shows the DRIVE again.. DVD/RAM drive..
GREAT. put in a disk. and it works...
take it out and try another disk..
NO..
back to
CD DRIVE F:/
try to double click on it. and get a message..

F:/is not accessible
The I/O opertation has been aborted becuase of either a thread exit or an application request..

what is happening??

[Demophobe]

Me thinks you have bad media or at least a format that is unreadable by the DVD-ROM. Some disks are good, some are bad, yes? Then, that is the problem.

Are they DVDs? The ones that won't read, that is. If not, use your other drive. If so, then....well....find another burner to try...make sure it is the media.

[Derrek]

Yeah, try some other disks.

Remember, the drives are region-coded too... just like set-top players.

[itaewonguy]

I dont see how the disks have anmything to do with this..
when the drive is not being recognised under my computer..
the disks are dvds, they play once then no disks will play after that..

[Demophobe]

t...am I missing something?

Your post says certain disks aren't working. Classic bad media. Nothing about the DVD drive not being recognised by the OS.

That, or the time you burned that disk, it was in a format that is unreadable now. I have some very old video disks...very old...I shot on an old 8mm camera. I encoded them on my TV tuner card, and now they are the same as yours...unreadable. If I try to click the drive icon with these CDs in the tray, I get an I/O error.

If this isn't the case, then you need to re-word your post so we can understand what the problem is.

If you play a DVD, then try to play the same one again but without success, that's odd. If you are trying to play standard DVDs, not burns or rips again without success, that's odd.

Is this the case?

[redbird]

Is this what you're saying: You put in DVD #1 and it played fine. You put in DVD #2 and it didn't play, with the computer telling you it couldn't find the F drive. Then you unhooked the DVD drive and hooked it back up again.

If true so far, did you then use DVD #1 first (which played) and then DVD #2 second (which didn't play) or did you put in DVD #2 first. You can see how this might make a big difference in our collective diagnosis, right?

[itaewonguy]

both disks dont work the second time..

the drive is not active once it has been used once..
it just like deactivates itself..
it no longer works..

if I uninstall it.. it will read it the drive and work once..

then it doesnt read the drive anymore once its been used once..

[Derrek]

[Demophobe]

Yes....you don't really need 2 drives now, do you? Chances are, the DVD-ROM can write and read CDs as well.

[itaewonguy]