cant access the dvdrom drive

[konakona]

I posted the same question in the OS forums and got no replies, so here it goes again...

last nite i freshly installed windows on my main computer as i replaced the mobo. the DVDROM drive in question was fine before i installed SP2. now it seems to be reading the dvds fine - autoplay works and i could play files in wmp or view pics in a slideshow. the problem is it wont let me access the file tree through folders or windows explorer. when i double click on it nothing happens selecting the path through a pulldown menu ends up in the same deadend. does anyone have any idea what may have possibly caused it? i installed the ASPI driver (forgot which version) before patching the windows btw... uninstalling nero didnt help either..

 

[Smilin]

Go lookup this key:

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

tell us what values you have for Upperfilters and Lowerfilters.


Also, ASPI (Adaptec SCSI Programming Interface) is one buggy SOB but it's probably unrelated to your current problems.


I didn't see your post on the OS forum, sorry.

 

[konakona]

wow, thx for the reply
come to think of it, nforce driver set is another culprit for the anomaly.

i am not too sure what you mean by Upperfilters and Lowerfilters, i am not seeing those keys or string/binary values.

this is what i have :

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
"Class"="CDROM"
@="DVD/CD-ROM drives"
"EnumPropPages32"="MmSys.Cpl,MediaPropPageProvider"
"Installer32"="storprop.dll,DvdClassInstaller"
"SilentInstall"="1"
"NoInstallClass"="1"
"TroubleShooter-0"="hcp://help/tshoot/tsdrive.htm"
"Icon"="-51"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000]
"EnumPropPages32"="storprop.dll,DvdPropPageProvider"
"InfPath"="cdrom.inf"
"InfSection"="cdrom_install"
"ProviderName"="Microsoft"
"DriverDateData"=hex:00,80,62,c5,c0,01,c1,01
"DriverDate"="7-1-2001"
"DriverVersion"="5.1.2535.0"
"MatchingDeviceId"="gencdrom"
"DriverDesc"="CD-ROM Drive"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000\DigitalAudio]
"RegistryVersion"=dword:00000001
"NumberOfBuffers"=dword:00000008
"SectorsPerRead"=dword:00000010
"SectorsPerReadMask"=dword:ffffffff
"CDDASupported"=dword:00000001
"CDDAAccurate"=dword:00000001

 

[Smilin]

Upperfilters and Lowerfilters are used to "modify" or add functionality to a driver class. CD/DVD Burners often use filter drivers to add the needed burning functionality to a generic CDrom driver. If you don't have any there is a good chance that you have some sort of GUI related issue preventing you from expanding that tree. You could be missing a filter driver as well.

How does it behave if you jump to command line and navigate the folders that way using "cd" and "dir" ?
Have you tried deleting the device from device manager and letting it redetect?

 

[konakona]

How does it behave if you jump to command line and navigate the folders that way using "cd" and "dir" ?
Have you tried deleting the device from device manager and letting it redetect?

wonder why i never thought of that! cd/dir works just fine, will try reinstalling the device and report back

EDIT : reinstalling was a no go should i try uninstall/reinstalling nforce drivers? this is the only issue holding me back from making a ghost image... dont tell me i am gonna have to reinstall windows after all this tweak/installation i done since last nite

 

[Smilin]

Yeah, you've probably got some sort of Shell / GUI issue going. You can try reinstalling the latest IE servicepack and/or SP2 as somewhat of a hammer to fix the problem.

If you are certain the problem popped up after SP2, you can give MS a call and they will troubleshoot a SP issue free of charge. Since you don't have root cause you can't say for certain this wouldn't happen again if you did a reinstall. Get some help from MS instead of reloading.

 

[konakona]

thx for trying to help but i do not have a phone...
i reinstalled nforce drivers and on the next boot up i was able to access the drive with no difficulty
.. or so i thought then all of a sudden the explorer window closes on itself (didnt crash or anything) and the same old problem again...
at least now i know its something with the nforce chipset. hdd is working flawless tho. feels much snappier than that km400 bs i upgraded from

EDIT : ok, i finally figured it out thru fiddling with dvdrom drive properties screen. unticking "Enable CD Recording on this drive" under recording tab fixed it in one swift move i suppose the built-in cd recording thingy was somehow conflicting with the ASPI. well i am glad i can make a ghost image now

 

[Smilin]

Sweet. Glad it worked out!