Recent content by Tsukiyomi

Ok, two months later and yesterday I picked up an LG GH22 Super Multi DVD ReWriter. It's an IDE drive where my last (non-working) drive was SATA and specifically says it's Windows 7 compatible on the box. Coincidentally, the second drive (Ricoh) was also IDE. Anyway, I hooked it up, installed...

I don't have a floppy drive so that's going to throw me I suppose (I can't very well make a boot disk on CD if I'm trying to get the drive recognised can I?) Something of note here though - although the drive is recognised in BIOS (and my 'second' DVD drive, the Ricoh, isn't, even though that...

Saltgrass, thanks for being so helpful with this. I checked my drivers and they're exactly the same as yours. What's different for me though is the following: I've no idea whether it's normal to have two of each ATA channel there. The First and third entries under IDE/ATA look like this...

It's not dumb - my main drive (Lite On Atapi DVD A DH16A3L) came with the computer (Compaq SR5310F) 19 months ago. As I said previously, the drive was working as normal - reading/burning DVD+/- R/RW, original DVD movies and CD-R, CD-RW. The last time I burned a DVD was 2 hours or so before...

You assume correctly :) The only thing I've found (from Compaq) is for older operating systems and won't do anything on my Win 7. The driver that's showing is the generic c:\windows\system32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys

Nope, I'm still stuck with two DVD drives that think they're CD Players (my second drive has renamed itself from Ricoh DVD RW MP5240 to Rhcnh DVD RV LP4240) so I can't even flash the firmware or update the driver.

So here's yet another addition to what seems to be an ever-growing list of drives behaving badly. I've got two DVD drives, neither of which are working properly in 7, the main one being a Lite On (Atapi DVD A DH16A3L) SATA drive. It's a DVD +/- RW Dual Layer that was working perfectly 2 hours...