ExactAudioCopy won't detect my optical drive!

[manveruppd]

It was working fine up until a couple months ago, which was the last time I tried to rip an audio CD to my hard disk, but now it just won't see the drive at all! It can see virtual drives just fine (which I disabled, in case they were causing a conflict, but it didn't make a difference), but not my actual physical CD/DVD-RW drive!

At first I thought that the culprit was the CD I was trying to rip, that maybe it had some weird copy protection on it, because I could play it through VLC or PowerDVD, but if I tried to open EAC or RealPlayer they wouldn't even detect the drive. So I tried with a different audio CD, and this time, even though RealPlayer could play and rip the CD just fine, EAC STILL wouldn't detect the drive! So maybe there was something up with the CD after all, but EAC seems to have its own problems too.

I updated to the latest version of EAC but it didn't make a difference. Been through multiple restarts and reinstalls.

Note: the drive works just fine! It reads data DVDs, plays movie DVDs, plays audio CDs through other applications (except for that one that I started off trying to rip in the first place). But everything other than EAC works as expected.

Drive is a Toshiba SH-S203D, OS is WinXP-32 SP3. Driving me nuts, any advice welcome!

 

[marc2003]

start>run> copy/paste this

%appdata%

delete the "EAC" folder.

start>run>regedit

browse

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\

and delete "awsoftware". that will remove all EAC settings. try running EAC again.

if that doesn't work then use another ripper. anything with accuraterip support will do. it doesn't really matter if the rips are secure so long as you can verify the rip online against others and get a confidence level of more than 1.

foobar2000 and cue tools are both good. dbpoweramp is also good but costs $$$.

 

[bledd]

maybe need to do the 'upper filters' fix

 

[tronath]

try CDex

 

[manveruppd]

Cool, thanks, I'll try those solutions when I get home!