DVD-Rw Not Showing in Device Manager on XP after Ubuntu install

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So I have been having a few problems with my DVD drive lately I realised the lens was dirty so I cleaned it and it seemed to be working perfectly then. That was before I formatted my laptop. I also pulled it out of my laptop and cleaned the sockets. I plugged it back in and it seemed to be working like normal then.

Now I have formatted my laptop with xp, after I installed what updates I could by editing the register. The drive was working fine after this point. I then installed Ubuntu, thinking that sooner or later I am going to have to make a switch as xp is getting old, and I would like to learn how to use a Linux operating system. And go down this root in the future as they are getting better and better, I think sooner or later games will be supported too and that is probable the only reason I use windows any more par its what I am use too.

Basically I did a duel install and after I loaded up xp to install some software and a game. Basically to finish sorting XP out after the format, and I can't use the DVD drive now.

I checked device manager and it doesn't even register the drive, nothing at all shows, no name nothing. I checked the bios, and it shows the DVD drive, I then checked it loaded disks via putting in the xp disk and seeing if I could get to the format menu. It worked fine. I checked in Ubuntu the DVD Rw seems to be reading disks fine in their at least I can see the files on the disk.

I noticed that the partition drives for Linux do not have letters assigned when I look in 'disk management' on XP. Possible because I installed them on a different format to NTFS, I basically did what Linux recommended. I may try uninstalling Ubuntu and see if that fixes it. And if so install it again in a NTFS partition, however I would prefer do it in the format they recommend, as I assume this is more secure. Is there a way to assign drive letters to Logical Linux partitioned drive as I think this might be the problem?

Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks
 

cklaubur

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Linux partitions are not understood by Windows, so they are not assigned drive letters. There is nothing wrong there. That would also have no effect on your DVD drive issues.

Is there a reason you had to edit the Windows registry to install updates?

Casey
 

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Yes as XP is not supported any more, they won't allow users to access the download centre that finds the updates. Even though users have paid for XP originally. It makes no sense, it just allows users to access old updates with out having to download each one individually.

Oh and the drive was still working after I did this. It stopped working after I installed ubuntu.
 

cklaubur

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Well, I just learned something new, then. The only time I use Windows XP anymore is in a virtual machine on my desktop to run some programs that won't run on 64-bit Windows 7. As a result, I don't keep up on updates for it very much.

Casey
 

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Right so I deleted the partitions Ubuntu was on and the DVD drive is now working again. I obviously have done something wrong while installing Ubuntu. I will reinstall it and see if this happens again.
 

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