William Gaatjes
Lifer
If you have installed Acronis backup software and then remove it again for whatever reason, you might be in some trouble( I was). Because the dvd burner can read but not write anymore. It will stop after about a minute and it may seem your dvd burner or dvd's are rotten.
As it turns out, Windows has some handy features that with the wrong software can cause some problems. Luckily, windows will help you out. (It did for me).
I have (hopefully until the end of the week, then i hope to run W10-64) W7-64 bit home edition. Windows has a feature called filter drivers. What this does is that between the device and the normally used driver and between the driver and the os, special software layers can be added to add functionality, guarantee backwards compatibility or just added features. Virus scanners also often implement filter drivers to scan everything what goes to and comes from your storage media.
There are upper filter drivers and lower filter drivers. But i am not going into detail about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_driver
When everything runs fine, you will never know they are there.
But sometimes, it goes wrong. And that is what happened to my dvd burner. After de-installing acronis, the filter drivers from acronis where still there but not functioning properly anymore.
http://www.bustrace.com/downloads/free_utilities.php
With devfilter.exe, you can examine your driver stack of your storage devices. As it turned out, i had some acronis filterdriver sitting between the dvd burner and the os.
The solution was so easy, that i was ashamed i did not think of it earlier.
I uninstalled my dvd burner and then let windows seek for new hardware.
Windows installed my dvd burner again.
After that, i could burn dvd and cd's again. 🙂
edit :
And checking with devfilter.exe, confirmed that there were no more filter drivers for the dvd burner.
As it turns out, Windows has some handy features that with the wrong software can cause some problems. Luckily, windows will help you out. (It did for me).
I have (hopefully until the end of the week, then i hope to run W10-64) W7-64 bit home edition. Windows has a feature called filter drivers. What this does is that between the device and the normally used driver and between the driver and the os, special software layers can be added to add functionality, guarantee backwards compatibility or just added features. Virus scanners also often implement filter drivers to scan everything what goes to and comes from your storage media.
There are upper filter drivers and lower filter drivers. But i am not going into detail about that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_driver
When everything runs fine, you will never know they are there.
But sometimes, it goes wrong. And that is what happened to my dvd burner. After de-installing acronis, the filter drivers from acronis where still there but not functioning properly anymore.
http://www.bustrace.com/downloads/free_utilities.php
With devfilter.exe, you can examine your driver stack of your storage devices. As it turned out, i had some acronis filterdriver sitting between the dvd burner and the os.
The solution was so easy, that i was ashamed i did not think of it earlier.
I uninstalled my dvd burner and then let windows seek for new hardware.
Windows installed my dvd burner again.
After that, i could burn dvd and cd's again. 🙂
edit :
And checking with devfilter.exe, confirmed that there were no more filter drivers for the dvd burner.
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