DVD Writer not recognized after upgrading to Vista

John P · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 6

I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a
CD-Rom rather than a DVD writer. I have tried deleting the device and
rebooting but it comes back as a CD-rom. It worked correctly under Media
Center 2005 before the upgrade and was the drive I used for the Vista Home
Premium upgrade. The device will still play DVD's in Media Player but in
Windows DVD Maker, the dropdown DVD burner list is blank and in Media Center
when I try to burn I get a prompt that says CD/DVD recorder required with a
<retry> and <cancel> option.

My writer is a Samsung SH-S182M and in device manager it shows up as that
model number, but it says that it is a SCSI CD-Rom Device even though it is
an IDE DVD writer. The driver it shows is cdrom.sys and if I try to find a
new driver it shows that I have the proper driver installed. The disk that
came with the writer doesn't appear to have a driver on it and Samsung's web
site is of no help.

I'm stumped. Can anyone help?
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John P

Don · External Since: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 515

John P wrote:
> I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a
> CD-Rom rather than a DVD writer...

See the thread 'Issues with CD/DVD Rom device driver' from this morning,
and look at the post from Rick Rogers.

John P · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 6

I had already tried this solution. There was a Lower filters entry, but not
an upper filters one. I deleted the lower filters entry, rebooted, and no
change.
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John P

"Don" wrote:

> John P wrote:
> > I just installed Windows Vista and my DVD writer is now recognized as a
> > CD-Rom rather than a DVD writer...
>
> See the thread 'Issues with CD/DVD Rom device driver' from this morning,
> and look at the post from Rick Rogers.
>

sp00n · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 3

hi,
see my answer to the nec 3500 thread below - I spent some time researching
this problem and it turned out to be wrong EIDE controller driver issue. It
was recognized as an SCSI device. When I replaced it with plain Standard
Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver the problem was solved. Also
installing third-party RAID device driver (jmicron etc) causes the same
problem.
Best regards,
w.

John P · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 6

spoon-

I had looked at this thread, but I thought it didn't apply because it was a
different drive and a different motherboard. Maybe that isn't important. My
motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3. I'm not sure I completely understand
your response. Any chance you can give me some details on what I should look
for and/or change in the BIOS? It would be greatly appreciated.
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John P

"sp00n" wrote:

> hi,
> see my answer to the nec 3500 thread below - I spent some time researching
> this problem and it turned out to be wrong EIDE controller driver issue. It
> was recognized as an SCSI device. When I replaced it with plain Standard
> Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller driver the problem was solved. Also
> installing third-party RAID device driver (jmicron etc) causes the same
> problem.
> Best regards,
> w.
>
>

sp00n · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 3

firstly open the device manager and check IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. There
should be few ATA channels listed and something like Intel(R) ICH8 2 port
Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2825 (I have two of these, second one is 4
port and 2820). And there should be at least one Parallel ATA (or IDE)
controller - in my case it is jmicron device as 965 chipset has only SATA
built-in. After clean installation that IDE controller was detected as
something like SCSI RAID device. The correct driver for that controller is
"Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" - you can update the driver
manually and choose it from the list. I was trying to install new drivers
for my jmicron IDE controller but it always ended up with cd/dvd writing
being disabled. If you need a step-by-step guide please let me know, also
tell me what devices can you see in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers of Device
Manager.

Regards
w.

John P · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 6

Upon opening device manager, under IDE, I have 2 ATA Channel 0 entries, 2 ATA
Channel 1 entries, and the two Intel(R) ICH8 entries you describe below (2825
& 2820). Those are all the entries that are there, no parallel ATA or IDE
entry. Any idea how to proceed?
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John P

"sp00n" wrote:

> firstly open the device manager and check IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. There
> should be few ATA channels listed and something like Intel(R) ICH8 2 port
> Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2825 (I have two of these, second one is 4
> port and 2820). And there should be at least one Parallel ATA (or IDE)
> controller - in my case it is jmicron device as 965 chipset has only SATA
> built-in. After clean installation that IDE controller was detected as
> something like SCSI RAID device. The correct driver for that controller is
> "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller" - you can update the driver
> manually and choose it from the list. I was trying to install new drivers
> for my jmicron IDE controller but it always ended up with cd/dvd writing
> being disabled. If you need a step-by-step guide please let me know, also
> tell me what devices can you see in IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers of Device
> Manager.
>
>
> Regards
> w.
>
>

James · External Since: Nov 13, 2006 Posts: 2

Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it. Hopefully this works for you...
Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do another restart. Fixed! Good Luck!

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Bob · External Since: Jan 23, 2007 Posts: 159

"James" wrote in message news:200732381236jambungle@gmail.com...
> Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it.
> Hopefully this works for you...
> Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed
> there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and
> tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your
> DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I
> didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On
> restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do
> another restart. Fixed! Good Luck!
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com
>

Exactly what are we talking about here? Where is the original post that this
seems to be a reply to? You need to be sure to include the original post so
we can all benefit from information here...
Bob

Max · External Since: Sep 09, 2006 Posts: 417

Eggheads have no concern with 'threads'.
It's not their fault, they were born that way.

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> "James" wrote in message news:200732381236jambungle@gmail.com...
>> Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it.
>> Hopefully this works for you...
>> Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed
>> there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and
>> tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your
>> DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I
>> didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On
>> restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do
>> another restart. Fixed! Good Luck!
>>
>> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
>> http://www.eggheadcafe.com
>>
>
> Exactly what are we talking about here? Where is the original post that
> this seems to be a reply to? You need to be sure to include the original
> post so we can all benefit from information here...
> Bob
>
>
>

Bob · External Since: Jan 23, 2007 Posts: 159

"Max" <max.RemoveThis@home.com> wrote in message
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> Eggheads have no concern with 'threads'.
> It's not their fault, they were born that way.
>
> --
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> "Bob" <luna5nospam.RemoveThis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:%23BCIuLVbHHA.4000@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> "James" wrote in message news:200732381236jambungle@gmail.com...
>>> Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it.
>>> Hopefully this works for you...
>>> Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed
>>> there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and
>>> tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your
>>> DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I
>>> didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On
>>> restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do
>>> another restart. Fixed! Good Luck!
>>>
>>> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
>>> http://www.eggheadcafe.com
>>>
>>
>> Exactly what are we talking about here? Where is the original post that
>> this seems to be a reply to? You need to be sure to include the original
>> post so we can all benefit from information here...
>> Bob

I get it now....just another name for WebTV users.
Bob

Max · External Since: Sep 09, 2006 Posts: 417

Very similar, yes.
Poor souls.
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> "Max" <max.DeleteThis@home.com> wrote in message
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>> Eggheads have no concern with 'threads'.
>> It's not their fault, they were born that way.

<doghead cafe irrelevance snipped>
>>>> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
>>>> http://www.eggheadcafe.com

>>> Exactly what are we talking about here? Where is the original post that
>>> this seems to be a reply to? You need to be sure to include the original
>>> post so we can all benefit from information here...
>>> Bob
>
> I get it now....just another name for WebTV users.
> Bob

John P · External Since: Mar 19, 2007 Posts: 6

James-

Thanks a lot. This solved my problem immediately. I really appreciate your
assistance.

John
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John P

"James" wrote:

> Hi John, I had exactly the same problem as you and just fixed it. Hopefully this works for you...
> Look in Device Manager under 'Storage Controllers'. I had two listed there; 1 Gigabyte and 1 Microsoft... Uninstall the Gigabyte one - and tick the Delete driver option in the confirm box. Then go to your DVD/CD-Rom Drives and uninstall the entry for your CD/DVD drive also (I didn't get the delete option here). Then immediately restart Vista. On restart all drivers are then reinstalled correctly and you need to do another restart. Fixed! Good Luck!
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com
>

motarola2 · External Since: Apr 23, 2007 Posts: 1

hey guys, i had an issue with my nec ODD not being detected after the
windows vista upgrade.
i fixed it by installing the lastest upgrade of nero, deleting the
upper and lower filters, and flashing the BIOS.

good luck.

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motarola2

Firegod666 · Joined: May 05, 2007 Posts: 1

bgiversen · Joined: Sep 11, 2007 Posts: 1

Could you link to the post "Issues with CD/DVD Rom device driver" as I've been unable to find it.

Thanks

helaas · Joined: Dec 21, 2007 Posts: 1

camonacomputer · Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 5

try going into the device manager uninstalling the drivers and reboot the computer that might work.