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ekam · 14 Mar 2009 at 23:58

basically my optical drives have just stopped reading blank discs all together they will only read discs with stuff on them. wen i click on the drives in "my computer" it says "please insert a disc"
they are :

Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-115D

sketch145 · 14 Mar 2009 at 23:59

which OS are you running

siumatfung · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:01

uninstall the driver for the DVD drive then reboot

sketch145 · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:02

perhaps take a peak at the device manager to see if it reports a fault

sketch145 · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:03

check for latest drivers (although a driver fault wouldn't have caused it to stop reading suddenly)

sketch145 · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:04

perhaps the blank media is at fault?

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:05

sketch145 said:
which OS are you running

im on windows xp pro 32 bit

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:06

sketch145 said:
perhaps take a peak at the device manager to see if it reports a fault

ive checked and seems to be fine :/

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:07

sketch145 said:
perhaps the blank media is at fault?

ive used the same discs in the drives before and have worked fine so i dont think thats a problem

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:08

siumatfung said:
uninstall the driver for the DVD drive then reboot

do i go on device manager and right click on them and click uninstall?

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:12

wow lol every posted a minute after each other freaky

sketch145 · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:15

did you manage to uninstall the drivers yet, cant really help with this because I haven't used xp for a while.

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:19

i dont know how to uninstall the drivers :/ i have an idea but dont want to do anything cus im not 100% sure

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:19

ps im not even sure if there are any drivers

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:23

im just getting a new firmware for it that i have found

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:30

ah i have found out how to sort the drivers out, the firmware didn't do anything by the way

ekam · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:32

ok so i click roll back drivers and it says there are no backed up drivers for this device.

sketch145 · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:49

ok first I would advise you to create a system restore point (remember that much from xp at least)

sketch145 · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:50

then If anything goes wrong you can undo it

sketch145 · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:51

I'm pretty sure that rolling back driver versions only works if you've got more that 1 version on your computer.