DVD Drive not reporting media change

[Paul J. Hurley]

I have a rather run-of-the-mill SATA LG DVD burner (model GH22NS30) on my
Vista 64 system on a Asus P5K mobo. If I change the media (DVD or CD) in
the drive by pushing the eject button on the drive, Vista does not see that
the media has changed. Explorer either shows no media, or I am prompted to
erase the disc. If, however, I use the "Eject" menu option in the Explorer
context menu to open the drive, the new media shows in Explorer as
expected.

The same problem appeared with an older model DVD drive.

Is there a hidden setting buried somewhere in Vista or maybe the BIOS that
I am missing?

Thanks!

Paul

 

[Uwe Sieber]

The "Media Change Notification" must be activated.
Some stupid "optimization tools" deactivate this.

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html#autorun

The box "instert notification" should be checked.
Admin previleges are required to change this setting.
A restart is required to take effect.


Uwe

 

[Paul J. Hurley]

Ah yes, the old auto-run disable problem. I always turn off autorun on my
removable drives, but I did not expect doing so would also disable any
media change notifications.

Thanks for the link, Uwe. I'll give your utility a try.

Paul