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Windows sees DVD drive, but not the disk
I built my own system (I've done this many times before) and thought I got a quality DVD combo drive - a Plextor sata - and used it to install Windows 7 Professional on my new machine. It was going fine and I last used the drive to install MS Office 2007 Professional's first disk. I restarted the computer and then wanted to install the bonus stuff on disk 2. Windows wouldn't access the disk.
I tried other disks, nothing. I looked in Windows Explorer and, sure enough, the drive was there, but didn't indicate it had a disk in it. I looked at Device Manager and, as usual, it reported the drive was working properly - even though it wasn't. And the drive was recognized in Disk Management and I was able to change the drive letter to V (I always rename the DVD to V).
My assumption was it was a bad drive. I got the royal run-around from Plextor tech support and the guy was very rude, so I opted to buy a new drive. It came yesterday, an Asus DRW-24B1ST. I'll be damned if it didn't have the same problem.
I have uninstalled the drive through Device Manager and physically, changed the sata port on my motherboard - I've got 6 ports and tried 5 of them (the 0 spot is taken by my HDD). No joy. I found a registry fix that I thought might work, but not. I did the fix routine on the Microsoft website and that didn't find anything.
This is driving me nuts. I'm too old for this anymore. I actually thought my last computer was going to be my last computer, but the doctor was wrong and I outlived it.
My mobo BIOS recognizes the drive. Windows recognizes the drive. But I couldn't play a video, listen to music or install a program from the drive to save my life. Surely I can't be the only one with a problem like this. But I can't find anything here, on Google or anywhere else to fix it.
Thanks for letting me be grumpy.
Jim