Cooledit Pro2 Hello, I have just had my CD\DVD go duff on me. I replaced it with an ASUS 2014L1. I now find that Cooledit will not "see" it. A friend has the same drive, and his works fine. Any ideas? Thanks, Bryan

What are you burning the DVDs with?

Click start control panel administrive tools,computer management,device manager scroll down cd-dvd rom drives you might see a yellow question or exclamation mark ? ! or red X right click you will have options to update driver,roll back driver,, select driver click to reinstall drivers click update driver or uninstall then reinstall if this does not fix the problem it might be a registry problem if you cant see your disk drive in windows explorer
Close all open programs

Click on Start, Run, and type regedit and press Enter
Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

SYSTEM

CurrentControlSet

Control

Class

{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.

Upper Filters

Lower Filters

Upper Filters.bak

Lower Filters.bak

If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete

After deleting the keys, close the registry editor
Reboot your computer
Open My Computer and check to see if your CD or DVD drives have returned. You may also want to open Device Manager and verify that the yellow exclamation and error code on the CD or DVD drive is gone. or
you might have to physically unplug the leads for this cd/dvd then plug them back this should activate the found new hardware wizard or
you might have to uninstall then restart your computer then reinstall your DVD/CD then reinstall the driver for this device:
if your computer came with a motherboard disk the drivers could be on it
click start control panel administrive tools computer management device manager scroll down cd dvdrom drives if you see a yellow question or exclamation mark?! or a red x right click you will need to update the driver or
select properties general troubleshoot, select driver click to reinstall drivers click update driver
hope this helps

If it is not registering in your OS as a drive and doesn't map in BIOS then the drive is bad and needs to be replaced. It's about $25 USD from www.newegg.com or there are other brands around the same price.

Hi,
Follow the below mentioned link. It works with XP and Vista both.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929461

Hi,

DVD Writers dont work as they grow old.
Sadly the Lense has stopped reading the Disk.
Try a few fresh DVD/CDs .
Still if u get the same message.
Dispose it off or get it repaired ( No guarantees that it will work)

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- WisBee

Here's a solution to fix this:

1) Close all open programs
2) Click on Start, Run, and type REGEDIT
and press Enter
3) Click on the plus signs (+) next to the following folders
* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
* SYSTEM
* CurrentControlSet
* Control
* Class
* {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
4) This folder is the DVD/CD-ROM Drive Class Description in the registry. Look for any of the following names in the right hand column.
* UpperFilters
* LowerFilters
* UpperFilters.bak
* LowerFilters.bak
5) If any of the above keys shown in step 4 are listed, right-click on them and choose Delete
6) After deleting the keys, close the Registry Editor
7) Reboot your computer

Thanks for using Fixya.

Most of the drives are not capable of recognising specific color medias (specifically purple), try using perl, silver media for dual layer disc

find its type and product No and search for its firmware and install it

HELLO THERE
here is a link that will help you out ok?
pease dont forget to give this solution a rating i really need it.
best regards mike

1. Asus Cd-Rw & DVD-Rw Drivers You can download Asus Cd-Rw & DVD-Rw Drivers for your hardware. If you want to use Asus Cd-Rw & DVD-Rw Drivers for other purpose, Please contact ...
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You should know that not all computer have a same driver to read every dvd especially unbranded so first step look inti driver you have on your computer then if you have for a common driver it will work