I have a dell 1545 and the dvd drive won't detect dvd recordables or the blank cd. It is a dvd/cd +- drive. It does work when I put in the vista dvd and a movie dvd I have.
IS there something wrong with the dvd drive? I will probably get a new one from dell.. but just checking here before I talk to the annoying dell agents.
Last edited by dfs4; 06 Mar 2010 at 15:21.
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It seems that you have quite a lot of firmware updates for your drive. =)
Downloaded the new drivers and still get the same result.
Did you get windows 7 from an upgrade installation or a custom installation? For your computer, the default os is vista. If you did an upgrade installation, you will need to start over and do a custom installation because some system files were probably corrupt.
Try this: Cmd (elevated)
sfc /scannow
Try installing the intel matrix driver if you have AHCI enabled in the bios - what happens W7 installs the driver during install but for full functionality you need to install the latest intel matrix storage manager software/driver - this can cause problems with DVD drives and intel chipsets.
Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager
nothing has worked so far. but then on a website it said someone managed to fix by installing 'Nero' and then tweaking some setting in Nero(something about changing the permission from one user to all users) and it worked for them. I installed Nero and couldn't find that but went ahead and tried burning a couple files on the DVD recordable and it worked to my surprise and frustration. Now when the files are copied and I go to my computer, the dvd-drive detects it and I can work with the files just fine.
It looks like you just needed a program that writes to the CD/DVD. I bet it works with any CD/DVD writer. What do you want the system to do with a blank CD if you do not try to write on it?
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