DVD Drive Problem

[Ranjan]

Hi friends
Well, coming to the point that my DVD Drive is behaving strangely.
1. Whenever i insert any cd/dvd in it, then i can access the contents of the cd/dvd but the icon and the title of the DVD drive doesn't change. It always show DVD-RAM Drive (G: ). It doesn't changes. For eg- if i insert vista cd, then the title and icon of the drive doesn't change.

2. And sometimes my dvd drive just disappears. I've to reboot to bring it back.

I've checked in device manager and it says that my drive is working well but the above 2 problems are still there.

So, how to fix it?

[rohitkch]

I believe that you have laptop, because I had similar problem and most of the time it was due to driver of dvd, but finally problem had been removed by changing drive of laptop (Which too had same problem after 5-6 months), if this is the case and it's under warrantey don't wait and contact service center. Else wait for advise of other memebers here..

[kv777]

I have experienced this problem before in my pc.My problem was caused due to a damaged
lens.i think the only solution is to replace the drive.i hope ur drive has warranty..

[Ranjan]

I believe that you have laptop, because I had similar problem and most of the time it was due to driver of dvd, but finally problem had been removed by changing drive of laptop (Which too had same problem after 5-6 months), if this is the case and it's under warrantey don't wait and contact service center. Else wait for advise of other memebers here..

thnx for ur reply but i dont have laptop... Its a pc...
I dont know as what's exactly causing the problem... I tried updating my drivers even but didn't work.. Its very irritating...

I have experienced this problem before in my pc.My problem was caused due to a damaged
lens.i think the only solution is to replace the drive.i hope ur drive has warranty..

Well i'm sure that its not a lens problem as i bought my pc just few months ago and i handle it with care....

[flybird]

I looked up the answers from Microsoft Web site. Hope it can help you
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B314060&x=12&y=13#
Strongly recommend you to beckup before any operations.
here a partition table backup tool may helpful
http://www.data-recovery-utilities.com/data-recovery.html

[Ranjan]

I looked up the answers from Microsoft Web site. Hope it can help you
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...060&x=12&y=13#
Strongly recommend you to beckup before any operations.
here a partition table backup tool may helpful
http://www.data-recovery-utilities.c...-recovery.html

Well thnx for the links... But problem is still there... I'll try to investigate there futher..
btw, do u think that deleting the lowerfilters value from

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

will do any good???