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MSI P965 Neo & CD/DVD drive incompatibilities on Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Hi,
Here is my system info:
Motherboard - MSI P965 Neo (BIOS v1.6)
CPU - Core 2 Duo E6600 2,4GHz
RAM - 4GB DDR2
HDD's - 2 x WD 640GB Caviar Black (7200RPM) + 1 x SEAGATE 1TB (7200RPM)
OPTICAL - SONY DVD RW DRU-800A + LITE-ON DVDRW SHM-165H6S + LG HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55L
VGA - NVIDIA GTS450
Screens - SAMSUNG Syncmaster P2450 (x 2)
Sound Card - SB Audigy + ESI ESP1010
I have had the above setup running on a dual boot of Windows XP SP3 32 bit for years (since 2006). The main reason for the dual boot is that one of the WD drives runs my gaming / internet / graphics setup, and the other drive is loaded with my music production setup (hence the 2 sound cards).
I also have several external drives as backup storage for software, documents, music & games etc. All attached devices were working 100% when everything was Windows XP on both sides.
But due to having to upgrade, after some games were not running on Windows XP, I went to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP 1, late last year (2012) and installed all the 64 bit software I could find.
I started noticing that I could not burn any type of CD / DVD from the LITE-ON or the LG drives, and only the SONY drive was being seen in burning software or being able to write to media.
The other two drives are being seen by the OS, and are also of the latest firmware version. I can insert media and they will read it via Windows Explorer, but I cannot write anything with these two drives, from any of the software I used. In Device Manager (including any other system info software) I do not get any errors showing on the optical drives, and they are "Ok".
I initially thought it was an error with the software, but I soon picked up it was the OS & the CD/DVD drives not "talking" to each other for burning.
When I boot into Windows XP side, all the drives still read and write as per normal. It is only the Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit side that does not seem to be writing with these drives.
What can I do to fix this?