Windows 7 DVD Maker No Longer Reads DVD Drive?
Apr 1, 2012My Windows DVD Maker no longer shows my DVD drive E as default DVD burner. Instead, I got a "DVD burner not found" error message when I tried to burn a video to DVD.
View 1 RepliesMy Windows DVD Maker no longer shows my DVD drive E as default DVD burner. Instead, I got a "DVD burner not found" error message when I tried to burn a video to DVD.
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I moved the drive over to another computer and tried to save a file but when I checked again the file was gone, like it never saved at all. Subsequently, after removing and plugging it back in the computer did not detect the drive (or see it in disc management). It does show up as a generic USB drive in the device manager, but there are no properties for it.
When I add it to a computer, it still adds drivers for it, but then nothing happens after that. It may also be a hardware problem, since the drive fell on the ground pretty hard a while back, but seemed to be working fine. There isn't an easy way to open it up and check.
I also tried using a few data recovery programs, but they couldn't detect the drive either.
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For some reason, my computer stopped reading DVDs in the drive. CDs load fine and I can burn to them. I checked the hardware properties and somehow Windows has decided to install a CDROM driver to the device, which is why I believe DVDs are no longer being read. I've tried going through and uninstalling the driver and getting rid of the registry keys assosicated in order for the correct driver to be installed, but Windows keeps installing incorrect ones.This just happened a few days ago, tried restoring Windows to a week ago and same problem exists. Less than a month ago I used it to install Diablo 3 so I know it works fine.
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My DVD drive stop recognizing disc inserted into it. Both DVD's and CD's
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