CD/DVD drive problems

[jliles01]

I'm having problems with my LITE ON LH-20A1L SATA DVD-RW drive. It started with COD4. Game installed properly, but when I try to play single player, I would get a "Please insert correct DVD.." error. This was without removing the DVD after the install.

I just re-installed CDXP BURNER PRO, an open source CD Burning program which I've used for quite awhile, and tried to copy some files to a CD-R disc. The files could not be written to the cd. Now, NO cd or dvd I insert in the drive can be seen. When I click on the drive in My Computer, I get a "no disc in drive" message, no matter what is in there. I uninstalled CDXP BURNER, but that didn't help.

Hardware Manager > properties for that drive says drive is working properly. I tried uninstalling the drive in Hardware Manager and rebooting. The drive will show up again in Hardware Manager after reboot, but still same problem. Windows says it can't find a better driver than what it currently has. Using standard Windows driver, LITE ON doesn't provide a driver. I've updated the firmware, @ LITE ON's suggestion, even though it's the same firmware that was default.

My first experience with SATA cd/dvd drives. Does the problem have anything to do with the SATA aspect?

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[0roo0roo]

do you have virtual cd software installed?

 

[jliles01]

No. At least none that I installed. When I first started having the problem with COD4, I installed the NERO ESSENTIALS that came with the dvd drive. I believe it was a trial cd. But I thought there might have been a driver or something on the cd for my drive. When that didn't help I uninstalled it and cleaned my computer with CCLEANER. And I installed CDXP BURNER, as I said in my 1st post. It's uninstalled now.

I just saw another post where someone said XP & VISTA sees SATA drives as SCSI devices and some DRM's don't like that. I huess I should have done more research before going to SATA optical drives.

 

[Old Hippie]

Just for shits, giggles, and general principles, why don't ya run the Nero clean tool? That program (Nero) gets into cracks, crevices and corners.

 

[jliles01]

Shits, giggles, and general principals might have done it. My computer was off all day while I was at work. I ran the Nero clean tool, and now it can see discs again. I didn't test the drive before running the clean tool, so it was either that or the fact that the computer was off all day, which is doubtful. Thanks for that solution, Old Hippie. That's why I didn't want to install Nero.

I still have the original problem with COD4. But I had that problem before installing Nero. From other threads I've read, it could be due to the SATA optical drive problem or that damn SecuROM. I'll have to read up on both a little more and then start testing them. And I still have to check to see if I can write to my optical drive, either with WinXP or CDXP BURNER.