LG Optical Drive Disappears From Device List
I have a HTPC with dual boot WinXP and Win7 RC7100. I have a problem with my optical drive in Win7, but the problem does not occur in WinXP.
Problem Description:
On booting up the system the optical drive works fine and appears in My Computer and the Device manager. At some point (usually within three minutes of bootup) the drive disappears from My Computer and the Device manager â it just vanishesâ¦
There are no errors or windows explaining why it happens, there are no errors shown in the event logs either around the time it occurs.
Once the drive âdisappearsâ the tray cannot be opened by the button on the drive and it isnât redetected if you run the search for new devices gizmo.
If you just leave it in that state, periodically the drive light flashes and there is a clicking noise. In the event logs it shows an error âdrive not readyâ. The error repeatedly appears sometimes every few seconds for a few minutes. It then stops and might not do it again for hours, or might start again in a few minutes.
Whilst all this is going on, the drive still doesnât show in device manager and you cant eject the tray by the switchâ¦
I would suspect a faulty drive, but as I said above it works completely fine in WinXP.
I have tried stripping the machine of any added software, which didnât take long as all I have is Kaspersky AV, PowerDVD and software for the LCD on my Antec case.
The drive in question is an LG GGC-H20L (Sata CD/DVD Writter, Blu-Ray Reader).
I have tried searching on the net for others with the same problem as me, but surprisingly mostly I found people saying their same model drive works fine on Win7.
On the other hand the couple of people I did find with similar problems both stated that LG had refused to help them saying they wouldnât support Win7 until it was released. The closest thread to my problem I could find on here was this one:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprohardware/thread/1a40914b-d90d-4d0f-b228-942d8880218e
At the moment I can only see a few options:
1. Buy another drive from a different manufacturer and hope for the best.
2. Wait for Win7 to be released and hope that LG fix the problem with a driver update.
Any advice or ideas on how to solve this without resorting to the two options above would be much appreciated.
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View Replies (Posted: Monday, August 10, 2009 2:53 PM)
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