DVD-ROM and CD-RW in WinXP

[rand45 0]

Okay, where do I start...I installed Windows XP Home Edition Upgrade over Win98 SE August 20th. When I had Win98 on my system, I had a generic 36X CD-ROM jumpered master and a Plexwriter 8/4/32A CD-RW jumpered slave on my secondary IDE. The 36X CD-ROM was failing (lots of re-reads on installed CDs), and I was going to replace it with an Artec 16X DVD-ROM I bought after the WinXP upgrade. The WinXP upgrade went great, but because the 36X CD-ROM was failing, I used the Plexwriter CD-RW for the CD install. I then replaced the 36X CD-ROM with the Artec 16X DVD-ROM (jumpered master) on secondary IDE cable. Oh, and by the way I have a WD 80 GB HD jumpered master and WD 40 GB HD jumpered slave on the primary IDE buss. My bios detects all drives correctly (Albatron KX600 pro w/Athlon 2600+), and all detections for IDE in bios set to either 'enabled' and/or 'auto'.

Windows XP also detects drives correctly (device manager) with 'device enabled' and 'no conflicts'. They are identified by drive letter (my computer) correctly, with drive I: as 'DVD-ROM', and drive J: as 'CD-ROM' (hard drive's partitioned C thru H). This is where the problem starts: If I stick in ANY type of CD into the DVD-ROM, it will ONLY read the CD when I first install the DVD-ROM (I'll explain), but not after subsequent reboots. After a reboot, the DVD-ROM will accept a CD, but will no longer read it at all. Clicking on the DVD-ROM drive icon will generate a 'Please insert a disk in drive I: (even though I have a good one inserted) and trying to explore that drive will either generate the sam 'insert' message, or a blank display. When I remove the CD, the DVD-ROM icon in my computer now changes to CD-ROM icon (from DVD-ROM icon). The Plexwriter CD-RW reads fine, unless I move (and jumper) the drive to the master on the secondary IDE buss. Now I know what you're thinking, either bad secondary IDE or corrupted drivers, but I've removed and installed VIA bussmaster drivers, and even swapped the hard drive IDE cable over to that secondary, and both HDs work fine. I've actually done a lot of drive swapping around (paying attention to jumpers), used other IDE cables, and even bought an SiII PCI Ultra DMA controller card to try. The results are that my bios detects all drives, the controller card detects all drives connected to it, and whenever I move the DVD-ROM to another IDE location, it works ONLY ON THAT INITIAL INSTALL; the next computer boot-up and it no longer reads ANY disks. Please, PLEASE Help, I think this may be XP related ;(

[slw1972 0]

Hi, I have exactly the same problem with one of my pc's . But if i take my dvd writer out an place it into my other pc , it all workds fine.

 

Must admit I am finding this very confusing as both PC are running winxp with both service pack upgrades. And both are running the versions of burning software etc.

 

I've ben hunting around and it looks like there are loads of people having these problems with a number of different drives .

But no solutions

 

If anyone can help I would be very happy .