DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista

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I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a
CD-Rom rather than a DVD writer. I have tried deleting the device and
rebooting but it comes back as a CD-rom. It worked correctly under Media
Center 2005 before the upgrade and was the drive I used for the Vista Home
Premium upgrade. The device will still play DVD's in Media Player but in
Windows DVD Maker, the dropdown DVD burner list is blank and in Media Center
when I try to burn I get a prompt that says CD/DVD recorder required with a
<retry> and <cancel> option.

My writer is a Samsung SH-S182M and in device manager it shows up as that
model number, but it says that it is a SCSI CD-Rom Device even though it is
an IDE DVD writer. The driver it shows is cdrom.sys and if I try to find a
new driver it shows that I have the proper driver installed. The disk that
came with the writer doesn't appear to have a driver on it and Samsung's web
site is of no help.

I'm stumped. Can anyone help?
 
John said:
I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a
CD-Rom rather than a DVD writer...
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See the thread 'Issues with CD/DVD Rom device driver' from this morning,
and look at the post from Rick Rogers.
 
hi,
see my answer to the nec 3500 thread below - I spent some time researching
this problem and it turned out to be wrong EIDE controller driver issue. It
was recognized as an SCSI device. When I replaced it with plain Standard
Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver the problem was solved. Also
installing third-party RAID device driver (jmicron etc) causes the same
problem.
Best regards,
w.
 
I had already tried this solution. There was a Lower filters entry, but not
an upper filters one. I deleted the lower filters entry, rebooted, and no
change.
 
spoon-

I had looked at this thread, but I thought it didn't apply because it was a
different drive and a different motherboard. Maybe that isn't important. My
motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3. I'm not sure I completely understand
your response. Any chance you can give me some details on what I should look
for and/or change in the BIOS? It would be greatly appreciated.
 
firstly open the device manager and check IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. There
should be few ATA channels listed and something like Intel(R) ICH8 2 port
Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2825 (I have two of these, second one is 4
port and 2820). And there should be at least one Parallel ATA (or IDE)
controller - in my case it is jmicron device as 965 chipset has only SATA
built-in. After clean installation that IDE controller was detected as
something like SCSI RAID device. The correct driver for that controller is
"Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" - you can update the driver
manually and choose it from the list. I was trying to install new drivers
for my jmicron IDE controller but it always ended up with cd/dvd writing
being disabled. If you need a step-by-step guide please let me know, also
tell me what devices can you see in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers of Device
Manager.


Regards
w.
 
Upon opening device manager, under IDE, I have 2 ATA Channel 0 entries, 2 ATA
Channel 1 entries, and the two Intel(R) ICH8 entries you describe below (2825
& 2820). Those are all the entries that are there, no parallel ATA or IDE
entry. Any idea how to proceed?
 
Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it. Hopefully this works for you...
Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do another restart. Fixed! Good Luck!

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Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it.
Hopefully this works for you...
Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed
there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and
tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your
DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I
didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On
restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do
another restart. Fixed! Good Luck!

EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
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Exactly what are we talking about here? Where is the original post that this
seems to be a reply to? You need to be sure to include the original post so
we can all benefit from information here...
Bob
 
James-

Thanks a lot. This solved my problem immediately. I really appreciate your
assistance.

John
 
Hi James,

I had quite a similar problem as you and John P --namely that MS's cdrom
generic driver would no longer work due to a recent update that somehow left
incomplete its inscription in the registry. My plight went without a response
for some days; so thought I'd try your solution: I uninstalled the ISCI
driver under storage controller, then the cdrom.sys one. On reboot, Vista
looked for the new software, yet, not finding the driver on its own,
announced that it had failed and so shut down, leaving me with the problem
anew plus the missing storage controller driver.
Any suggestions?

Any suggestions
 
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