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cjg62   02-07-2008 at 02:27:19 AM

Hi, can anyone help me, please. Just rebuilt my machine with a new mobo, cpu and graphics card, with 3 HDDs connected via SATA, running XP Pro SP2. Changed the old PATA DVD drive to a new SATA Lightscribe DVD writer, and it won't read disks. Lightscribe and Roxio Easy Media Creator recognize the drive, Computer Management Disk Management tells me the drive is healthy and gives me the size of the disk okay, but Explorer just shows blank when I insert a disk. Now here's the really odd thing. If I boot up the machine with a CD in the drive, it works okay. I can read CDs, change them, and everything's good. But booting up with the drive empty, then putting in a CD, Explorer shows a blank, and there's no autoplay. Doesn't read anything.

Anyone any suggestions, please.

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agentsmith957   02-07-2008 at 11:22:52 PM
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If you have an extra CD or DVD drive lying around, pop it in using the same configuration and see if it works. That way, you will know if its the configuration or the drive thats actually the problem. You can also try using a different SATA channel to see if that solves the problem.

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cjg62   02-18-2008 at 02:14:19 PM
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Thanks for this advice, but I didn't have another drive with the same configuration. In the end, I did a clean system reload and now everything works well. Must have been a software conflict somewhere that's gone now.

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