DVD Drive doesnt read disks

aDuck said:

Shutup said:

aDuck said:

WAA soo many suggestions... i'll do them in order and tell you which ones work.

I have windows XP on another hard drive, and i have been able to install from disks. This would probably rule out dirty lenses, too i guess.

Since the drive works in XP, i dont think its in the connections, and its on CS and is the only device connected on its cable.

As for Shutups qs, ill answer in number form (yaaay):

1. Yes, I also have the option to boot from CD, which is what i did to install XP after I installed 7

2. Yes. In device manager it sits there triumphantly, no worries.

3. Yes. When i put a disk in, it just spins the disk.

Might need a little explination about the sata jumpers... only ever had to fiddle around with IDE jumpers

Thanks for all your help guys.

Never mind the jumpers. You mentioned it works in XP, so it should work in W7 too.

One more question.

When you have inserted a disk, and you go to the explorer, when you doubleclick on it, does it open the disk's folder?

If yes, that means the associations are messed up, but that is solvable.

If no, I'm out of clues for now.

Unfortunately, no. When the disk keeps spinning, if i double click the drive, explorer locks up, and does absolutely nothing. I think after leaving it for 20 minutes or something, i can get into the files, but i cant open any of them. i just get a win32 error or something. Ill do it now to confirm

Here is the W7 forum search results that might help if you have some spare time in between replies :
Windows 7 Forums the biggest Windows 7 discussion forum, friendly help and many Windows 7 tutorials that will help you get the most out of Microsofts new Windows 7 Operating System. - Search Results for DVD Drive doesnt read disks

Bout time... since last post i tried to start reading a setup program on a DVD.

When i get into the DVD, it shows the files, but the icons dont show up.
When i start the setup program, it gives me the error:
"E:\ is not a valid Win32 application"

Not sure of its relevence, but I have Windows 64 bit.

Any ideas?

Thanks whest for the time killer.

Shutup said:

Never mind the jumpers. You mentioned it works in XP, so it should work in W7 too.

That may not be entirely true... If it's on Cable Select and Win7 is looking for Master... XP doesn't appear to care about the jumper... but that may not be the case in Win7.

Simple test... set the drive to Master and see what happens... He can always put it back.

And if you should happen to mess around with SATA jumpers, be sure to check the drives documentation at the manufacturer web site. Some drives [SeaGate I know for sure] has a jumper setting for running it in SATA-1 mode [5400 RPM] as oppossed to SATA-2 mode [7200 RPM]. Always be sure what the jumper settings are for first. Some Western Digital drives even have a jumper setting for technicians to access the firmware. In other words, be careful, and read the documentation for that specific drive. SATA's are a little more tricky that IDE drives, when it comes to jumper settings.

MadMaxData said:

And if you should happen to mess around with SATA jumpers, be sure to check the drives documentation at the manufacturer web site. Some drives [SeaGate I know for sure] has a jumper setting for running it in SATA-1 mode [5400 RPM] as oppossed to SATA-2 mode [7200 RPM]. Always be sure what the jumper settings are for first. Some Western Digital drives even have a jumper setting for technicians to access the firmware. In other words, be careful, and read the documentation for that specific drive. SATA's are a little more tricky that IDE drives, when it comes to jumper settings.

Just to remind you... we established earlier that it's an IDE drive.

CommonTater said:

Just to remind you... we established earlier that it's an IDE drive.

OOPS! Okay, so I'm a dope. Can we just chalk that up to a future reference thing? LOL

Ok, changing to master hasnt worked...

Just made a summary on the 1st post on whats going on and what doesnt work.

Thanks again for your help guys, still plugging away for solutions

aDuck said:

Bout time... since last post i tried to start reading a setup program on a DVD.

When i get into the DVD, it shows the files, but the icons dont show up.
When i start the setup program, it gives me the error:
"E:\ is not a valid Win32 application"

Not sure of its relevence, but I have Windows 64 bit.

Any ideas?

Thanks whest for the time killer.

Here's a interesting bing search result for the above error :
Not a valid Win32 application.

all results :
E DRIVE is not a valid Win32 application - Bing

Okay, I just re-read the entire thread. I didn't see where you went into Device Manager [while in Windows 7, not XP, obviously] and uninstalled the device. Then immediately reboot, and allow Windows to reinstall the driver. Have you tried that already?