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March 29th 08, 10:08 AM
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DVD Drives Missing
Greetings,
Some months ago I installed Vista Ultimate 32bit over XP. It has been working OK since then however just a few days ago, the Sony DVD drives (a DVD-rw and DVD-r) ceased being identified by their model numbers to be labeled as generic 'cd drives". I have tried a few things in 'System" such as forcing a new identification through Scan for Hardware Changes and Driver Update but the problem remains. Following a suggestion generated by Vista, I uninstalled the drive for the burner and tried to reinstall it. It failed. On doing a restart, it identified the make and model correctly yet still reported a 'problem' without installing the drive. Has anyone an idea what is wrong here? Anopheles 
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March 29th 08, 11:20 AM
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DVD Drives Missing
Hi,
See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894730/en-us and follow the steps there to remove the upper and lowerfilter entries in the registry. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Anopheles" wrote in message ... Greetings, Some months ago I installed Vista Ultimate 32bit over XP. It has been working OK since then however just a few days ago, the Sony DVD drives (a DVD-rw and DVD-r) ceased being identified by their model numbers to be labeled as generic 'cd drives". I have tried a few things in 'System" such as forcing a new identification through Scan for Hardware Changes and Driver Update but the problem remains. Following a suggestion generated by Vista, I uninstalled the drive for the burner and tried to reinstall it. It failed. On doing a restart, it identified the make and model correctly yet still reported a 'problem' without installing the drive. Has anyone an idea what is wrong here? Anopheles
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March 29th 08, 12:04 PM
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DVD Drives Missing
Thanks, Rick, I'll try it out and let you know. Many thanks for your assistance. Anopheles "Rick Rogers" wrote Hi, See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894730/en-us and follow the steps there to remove the upper and lowerfilter entries in the registry. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Anopheles" wrote in message ... Greetings, Some months ago I installed Vista Ultimate 32bit over XP. It has been working OK since then however just a few days ago, the Sony DVD drives (a DVD-rw and DVD-r) ceased being identified by their model numbers to be labeled as generic 'cd drives". I have tried a few things in 'System" such as forcing a new identification through Scan for Hardware Changes and Driver Update but the problem remains. Following a suggestion generated by Vista, I uninstalled the drive for the burner and tried to reinstall it. It failed. On doing a restart, it identified the make and model correctly yet still reported a 'problem' without installing the drive. Has anyone an idea what is wrong here? Anopheles
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March 29th 08, 12:14 PM
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DVD Drives Missing
It worked like a charm. Many thanks, Rick. "Anopheles" wrote: Thanks, Rick, I'll try it out and let you know. Many thanks for your assistance. Anopheles "Rick Rogers" wrote Hi, See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/894730/en-us and follow the steps there to remove the upper and lowerfilter entries in the registry. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "Anopheles" wrote in message ... Greetings, Some months ago I installed Vista Ultimate 32bit over XP. It has been working OK since then however just a few days ago, the Sony DVD drives (a DVD-rw and DVD-r) ceased being identified by their model numbers to be labeled as generic 'cd drives". I have tried a few things in 'System" such as forcing a new identification through Scan for Hardware Changes and Driver Update but the problem remains. Following a suggestion generated by Vista, I uninstalled the drive for the burner and tried to reinstall it. It failed. On doing a restart, it identified the make and model correctly yet still reported a 'problem' without installing the drive. Has anyone an idea what is wrong here? Anopheles
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