Cds vs DVDS

nmharleyrider · Mar 27, 2014

I am on Windows8.1. My dvd drive is recognized in File Explore and Disk Management. I can read and write CDs on this drive but it will not recognize a DVD for any read or write functions. I have done most of the recommended fixes like removing the upper and lower filters in the registry, changing the Atapi controller data entry to 00000001 but none of these work. What else can I do? Most people read this issue and think it means the PC does not recognize the drive itself but that is not the problem; it recognized it just fine; it just will not recognize a blank dvd or one with data on it.

mbarnes86 · Mar 27, 2014

Hi

either the dvd laser has failed but the CD laser is still working or the registry is badly corrupted

Find a Bootable DVD such as Win 7, 8 or 8.1 & and try to boot up off this DVD
If you cant boot up from a DVD this confirms hardware fault with drive

DVD drives are very cheap nowdays so easy to replace (assuming desktop PC with full height drive)

regards

Mike Barnes

nmharleyrider · Mar 27, 2014

mbarnes86 :

Hi

either the dvd laser has failed but the CD laser is still working or the registry is badly corrupted

Find a Bootable DVD such as Win 7, 8 or 8.1 & and try to boot up off this DVD
If you cant boot up from a DVD this confirms hardware fault with drive

DVD drives are very cheap nowdays so easy to replace (assuming desktop PC with full height drive)
Funny thing is I copied a bluray dvd yesterday with it and nothing seemed wrong. I would not mind buying another drive but it is a bluray and they are not that inexpensive yet anyway. The other thing is I just have one more bluray dvd to copy to my hard drive and I'm done with blurays. I would just buy the non-bluray version of this but it only came out on bluray darn it. Thanks for the quick reply tho'

regards

Mike Barnes

mbarnes86 · Mar 27, 2014

Hi

OK your optical drive has 3 lasers or leds for CD, DVD and Blueray

can you read only CD and not DVD & Blueray you burnt yesterday ?

Blue ray writers are more expensive

I got a LG Blueray reader + DVD writer to save money

regards
Mike Barnes

nmharleyrider · Mar 27, 2014

mbarnes86 :

Hi

OK your optical drive has 3 lasers or leds for CD, DVD and Blueray

can you read only CD and not DVD & Blueray you burnt yesterday ?

Blue ray writers are more expensive

I got a LG Blueray reader + DVD writer to save money
at the moment I can only read and write cds. Yesterday I could read dvds and copied one bluray dvd off to my hard drive. However, the minute I finished copying that one, I put another one in and windows did not recognize that there was a dvd in the drive. Talk about an intermittent problem.

regards
Mike Barnes

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