DVD-RW drive not recognized under Windows XP

Published on January 22, 2013 By kona0197 In Personal Computing

I have decided to start a new thread about this issue rather than further derail the other thread where we were talking about this.

I recently received a new DVD-RW drive courtesy of a friend here. After turning off the computer I removed the old drive. The old drive was the only IDE device on the system. I installed the new drive. The new drive uses the SATA interface.

After powering on the computer I went into the BIOS settings. BIOS confirms the new drive is connected. I am also able to boot of the new drive to bootable CDs and DVDs.

The problem is that Windows XP no longer says I have a DVD-RW drive. I only lists my hard drive and that's all under "My Computer". The new drive is plugged in correctly and runs just fine when I boot up a live Linux DVD. So I assume there is something that can fix this?

Comments (Page 2)

Wizard1956

on Jan 22, 2013

Well, other than a re-install of XP, I'm out of ideas.

kona0197

on Jan 22, 2013

Well just for the heck of it I rebooted the machine into Ubuntu Linux. After boot I popped in an old game DVD that I have. Came right up on the system and allowed me to browse the contents of the drive. So this has to be an XP issue.

No sense in a re-install of XP if all I am going to do is install Windows 7 here shortly on the new rig.

RedneckDude

on Jan 22, 2013

You may install 7 now. Or,

PM Yrag, if you dare......

kona0197

on Jan 22, 2013

PM Yrag? No thanks. I am convinced that the guy doesn't like talking to me. On the other hand I bet he would know how to fix this.

RedneckDude

on Jan 22, 2013

kona0197

reply 19

PM Yrag? No thanks. I am convinced that the guy doesn't like talking to me.

That's just Yrag's manner, he does it to everyone.

kona0197

on Jan 22, 2013

Well I am sure he will be lurking. If he decides to chime in I would be grateful.

Wizard1956

on Jan 22, 2013

Make an ISO of the disc with imgburn and load it into a virtual drive using Daemon Tools.

kona0197

on Jan 22, 2013

Good suggestion. It would work if I had a working DVD-RW drive to read the disc with. Sadly the old DVD-RW drive will not read the disc.

RedneckDude

on Jan 22, 2013

kona0197

reply 23

Good suggestion. It would work if I had a working DVD-RW drive to read the disc with. Sadly the old DVD-RW drive will not read the disc.

I thought your girlfriend had a laptop.

kona0197

on Jan 22, 2013

Yeah she does. Getting to use it is a different matter.

DaveRI

on Jan 22, 2013

Does the drive manufacturer's site say anything about it? Worth a shot.

doortech1

on Jan 22, 2013

. This worked for all 3 with no problems. 1. Click Start, then Run, then enter REGEDIT to open the Registry Editor 2. Navigate to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class entry 3. Under the Class entry, double click on {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} 4. In the right-hand pane, click ONCE to select the UpperFilters entry 5. Make sure the UpperFilters entry is highlighted, press Delete, then Yes. 6. In the right-hand pane, click ONCE to select the LowerFilters entry 7. Make sure the LowerFilters entry is highlighted, press Delete, then Yes. 8. Close the Registry Editor by clicking File, Exit.

Found this if you want to try it.

Wizard1956

on Jan 22, 2013

dt1, the reg keys file I sent does all that in far fewer steps.

kona0197

on Jan 22, 2013

doortech1

reply 27

In the right-hand pane, click ONCE to select the LowerFilters entry 7. Make sure the LowerFilters entry is highlighted, press Delete, then Yes. 8. Close the Registry Editor by clicking File, Exit.

That's the issue. There is no entry for "LowerFilters".

Phoon

on Jan 22, 2013

Here's a link to a MS Fixit that may or may not help. Hope it does.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060

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