kaze Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 I have a Thinkpad T41 with Windows XP Professional installed. It came with a CD-R/DVD drive that used to work, but at one point I had it uninstalled. When trying to reinstall the drive in Windows, two drives appeared (this happens everytime I try to reinstall it in Windows). One is named a CD-R/DVD (D:/) drive and the other is named only DVD (E:/). However, I can no longer play DVD's, only regular CD's.If I insert a DVD and double click on the drive CD-R/DVD (D:/) drive, it acts as if there were a blank CD-R in the drive like I could drag and drop files onto the drive. The DVD (E:/) will give the normal "Please insert a disk into the E:/ drive" message as if nothing were even there. I've never encountered this before.I have fully updated Windows XP Pro and the drive is Matshita brand. If anyone has any guesses as to what is going on, I'd be more than happy to hear ideas. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raddy Posted June 26, 2007 Report Share Posted June 26, 2007 You don't by chance have a program called Daemon Tools installed, do you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaze Posted June 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2007 You don't by chance have a program called Daemon Tools installed, do you?I do have it installed. But it is never in use and this problem was occurring before it was installed anyhow. Anyway, were you commenting on Daemon's tools as the problem? Or the solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NK33 Posted June 28, 2007 Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 If you have daemon tools then there is no need for a solution...daemon tools is the other drive, it's emulation software, used to mount images. Although what I don't understand is that its not something you'd install unless you knew what it was used for... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaze Posted June 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2007 I know I can use Daemon's tools to mount images, but I need a working DVD drive in order to get the images in the first place. Right now it only registers regular CD's. In order to play movies I would have to download them all or put the image on another computer and then transfer it. I was just wondering if there was a solution so all that extra work wouldn't be necessary because it seems like the drive should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natasha Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 hii am having the exact same problem. My drive worked fine before. And since i updated one of my programs, the drive no longer reads or recognises blank dvds. Can sum1 plz help. i have updated the drives to no avail. SOS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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