Does Not Recognize Rw Media - Club CDFreaks

andreld · 11-12-2006

Ive got two different DVD RW drives, a BenQ 1640 and a Samsung SH-162D. I bought the samsung lately, installed in my new pc, and for my surprise, it doenst read most media properly, wont let me erase my RW media, it says its regular -R.
I thought it was a defective dvd drive problem, but as I tried it on my other pc, it works perfectly. Then I tried my other dvd drive(BenQ) in this PC and it has the same problems. Im guessing its either defective windows system files, or hardware problem.. hopefully its the first.. I could try to format all my system, but I dont really wanna do that again...
If someone knows all the system files required to dvd/cd run properly, I'd like to know, maybe if I replace them it might work.
My running on:
E6300
1024 Samsung Ram
ASUS P5DL2-SE MB
WD 250GB SATA 2
GF 7600GS
WINXP PRO SP2

Thanks!

**TimC** · 11-12-2006

Welcome to CD Freaks.

Have you got Alcohol 120 installed by any chance? I ask as this has caused similar problems reported here recently.

andreld · 11-12-2006

yes i have.. well.. i have in both pcs... one works perfectly the other not...
thanks!

**TimC** · 11-12-2006

Try completely uninstalling it on the one that has the problem. I think it might be something about the installation getting slightly corrupt.

andreld · 11-12-2006

Unbelievebly U were right, if only I had known it were that simple... been flashin firmwares and so on, useless..
Thanks a lot for the rapid answers!

**TimC** · 12-12-2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by andreld

Unbelievebly U were right,

Not so unbelievable, I have been right before.

11-12-2006	#1 (permalink)
andreld New on Forum Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 3	Does Not Recognize Rw Media <a href='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/ck.php?n=a13febf7&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE' target='_blank'><img src='http://adstats.cdfreaks.com/www/delivery/avw.php?zoneid=30&cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE&n=a13febf7' border='0' alt='' /></a> Ive got two different DVD RW drives, a BenQ 1640 and a Samsung SH-162D. I bought the samsung lately, installed in my new pc, and for my surprise, it doenst read most media properly, wont let me erase my RW media, it says its regular -R. I thought it was a defective dvd drive problem, but as I tried it on my other pc, it works perfectly. Then I tried my other dvd drive(BenQ) in this PC and it has the same problems. Im guessing its either defective windows system files, or hardware problem.. hopefully its the first.. I could try to format all my system, but I dont really wanna do that again... If someone knows all the system files required to dvd/cd run properly, I'd like to know, maybe if I replace them it might work. My running on: E6300 1024 Samsung Ram ASUS P5DL2-SE MB WD 250GB SATA 2 GF 7600GS WINXP PRO SP2 Thanks!

11-12-2006	#2 (permalink)
TimC Moderator Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Posts: 7,498	Re: Does Not Recognize Rw Media Welcome to CD Freaks. Have you got Alcohol 120 installed by any chance? I ask as this has caused similar problems reported here recently.

11-12-2006	#3 (permalink)
andreld New on Forum Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 3	Re: Does Not Recognize Rw Media yes i have.. well.. i have in both pcs... one works perfectly the other not... thanks!

11-12-2006	#4 (permalink)
TimC Moderator Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: UK Posts: 7,498	Re: Does Not Recognize Rw Media Try completely uninstalling it on the one that has the problem. I think it might be something about the installation getting slightly corrupt.

11-12-2006	#5 (permalink)
andreld New on Forum Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 3	Re: Does Not Recognize Rw Media Unbelievebly U were right, if only I had known it were that simple... been flashin firmwares and so on, useless.. Thanks a lot for the rapid answers!

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