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General Computer Support / Re: Troubleshooting my CDDVD

« on: October 22, 2015, 08:43:30 pm »

Interesting issue - my Dell XPS M1330 has had an issue with the CD/DVD player for about a year. I've been on many different forums to see if there is a fix. The odd thing is it will play DVD's both ones I've recorded and ones commercially recorded. But, it will not play CD's. I did try the FixIt jraju posted, which was tried earlier this year with no luck. Same result today.
The interesting part of this is when a DVD is inserted the drive will show up in the directory and the DVD plays just fine. When I insert a CD, the drive disappears. The CD will try to start up usually about three times. It tries to spin up but only gets partway there before giving up.
Running Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Haven't worked on this issue for many months. Will take it up again and post any results.

I can't see this being a software problem but you could install the K-Lite Pack and perhaps work your way through these WMP trouble shooting steps.

http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

http://www.free-codecs.com/microsoft_fix_it_download.htm

Thank for replying I checked that Registry field you suggested  and there isn't any filters there not even the . Bak filter..  I am running a program that Microsoft suggested to use which is a registry tool ... I have everything backed up with an awesome handy program called Rollback RX Home and have already had to use it once :O ... Thanks again

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General Computer Support / Re: Troubleshooting my CDDVD

« on: October 21, 2015, 06:48:51 pm »

Thanks everyone for your suggestions I have tried them but nothing worked so I managed to take  snap shot of my registry in atapi for the cddvd rom... Thanks to windows help on their website I managed to screw things up just a tad bit more ... lets see if this works you might get a nude image of my girl friend lol kidding

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General Computer Support / Re: Troubleshooting my CDDVD

« on: October 07, 2015, 03:42:27 am »

I believe it's a Microsoft driver misconfiguration issue from what little information I got about the problem effecting Intel . HP, Toshiba , Dell machines on a very small problematic scale and on OP systems ranging  from XP to present mine being the latest . .. The only thing the Hardware does is eject the tray , the lite does go on but shuts down normally I suppose .. When I open and load the disk and close the door it does make sound like it is trying to read but then says ' please insert disk '  or it has the suggestion to find the proper disk .... Also , these are previously burned disks , DVDRW - CD-R  that I burned on this drive .  I did find firmware that seemed to at least give me control to copy a cannon priniter installation  , The firmware was Burn4Free ( .com ) however,   I had to restore my system and it didn't work the second time around . Microsoft isn't that helpful on troubleshooting this issue so I do thank for any help I can get for sure ..

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General Computer Support / Troubleshooting my CDDVD

« on: October 06, 2015, 08:29:33 pm »

My CDDVD rom drive will not run and I have looked all over the Internet on how to fix it with no results ... I tried the Tweaking tool for CDDVD fix but it didn't find a problem . This is what actually is in my system information folder for windows 8.1 on my Toshiba "  cdfs   CD/DVD File System Reader   c:\windows\system32\drivers\cdfs.sys   File System Driver   No   Disabled   Stopped   OK   Normal   No   No " Does anyone know how to correct this ? I have no idea ... Thanks