Saturday, September 13, 2003

CDRW problem resolved After removing a couple DVD authoring tools I had installed,  and installing an upgrade/update for Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD,  my CDRW drive started reading discs again.  Seems the Pinacle Driver for the "InstantDrive" program that is a part of the package had gotten "disconnected" (that's my guess anyway).  All is well again. comment [] 4:46:54 PM

CDRW no longer recognizes disks that are in the drive I installed a DVD writer about 3 weeks ago.  It had its HP -rleated burning utilities.  I also bought Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD (free after rebate).  It has a program called Instant Write that creates a virtual drive.  All of that seemed to be working fine.  My Samsung CDRW was being recognized and I was able to read and write to that drive just fine.  Then,  sometime after that,  my CDRW no longer reads the disks that are placed in it.  The DVDRW still reads and writes fine.  Windows shows that the drive is there,  but it does not recognize a CDROM I place in it.  I have a program called HP-DLA installed (it's in the uninstall list) and I have a program called Daemon Tools that enables a DVD image to be mounted by the system and used as a drive,  so my Power-DVD (part of the HP DVD package- my writer is an HP dvd 200i).  My E drive,  which is the samsung cdrw drive (as identified in MyComputer when I right click on  CD-RW (E:) drive and select the Settings Tab),  says it is using the INstantWriteDriver.   There is also a tab called DLA,  which shows the following: Label: No Media (there is a CDROM with information on it in the drive) Type: Samsung CD-R/RW SW 212B Drag and Drop recording option selected. I am uncertain which ,  if any ,  of these things have caused my problem.  Device Status junder properties says "the device is working properly".  Any clues? comment [] 11:48:53 AM

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