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Vista Won't Detecting My DVD Drive




By buddhika4 on Jul 19, 2008

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hi,
i gt a new laptop last week and at first it worked fine
bt then vista just stopped detecting my dvd drive - it's a matshita dvd rw with lightscribe
now everytime i turn on the lap it get's detected and sometimes it just vanishes off "my computer"
i deleted the registry entries as suggested ny one expert - didn't help
i updated the driev too
bt still nothing
Help?
thankyou


i bought the laptop with vista
it's a HP compaq 6715s
it's really annoying how it dissappears from the system
i tried to write a dvd just now and halfway thru it just stopped identifying the device
and now i'm stuck in a rut cos the dvd drive is useless...
open for solutions, ideas,
i need this
thnx
Comments:

Jul 19, 2008

- nope
it doesn't show up in device manager
like i said it just Vanishes
wierd.....
i read online that it's got something to do with Vista
so i'm considering going back to XP or having both together in my lap
which sounds a lil stupid bt at least i knw that XP will work without a glitch....
and i can't reinstall the driver cos i didn't get any CD fr it
everything came pre-installed
even the recovery disks came as a partition in the HDD
which i'm supposed to get burned to a dvd on my own according to the HP manual. bt i can't do that since Vista has mood swings with my dvd drive
......

Best Solution

posted on Jul 19, 2008
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hevez

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Rating: 77%, 13 votes
ok go into windows devic manager and see if the dvd drive shows up there it might have a little ! in a yellow triangle if it does dont worry it should offer a soultion to get to device manager go to (start type device manager and then click on it)
also try installing the device driver again hope this helps
Comments:

Jul 19, 2008

- hey dude
its hevez again
uh yeh to be honest with you vista is **** excuse my french
but it is terrible i run 2 systems on it and it only works for me because i have added ram
i would suggest going back to xp but then you are going to lose your drivers for your devices if you do this your going to have to go to each manufacturer and get the device drivers from them to run on xp
ok first thing to fix the dvd prob on vista go to the manufactures website eg www.imation.com go to the downloads section and find the model of your drive and you should see the link to download the current driver for the drive.
if that fails i would reccomend taking it to a tech and getting them to look at it
how this helps cheers
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