Pioneer DVD-115 won't read DVD's properly. Please Help!

[D_Williams 0]

I have Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 (build 2195). I have a Pioneer DVD-115 DVD-ROM Drive. When i put a DVD in the drive, it won't let me explore more than 1 level of sub-folders from the root on the DVD disc. It displayes all the subfolders, but no files.

 

The rest of my conficuration is as follows:

 

AMD Athlon 500 (Slot A)

Microstar MS6167 Motherboard with AMD 750/751 chipset

Maxtor IDE UDMA 66 Hard Drive (Master, Primary Channel)

Richoh MP7080A CD-RW Drive (Master, Secondary Channel)

The Pioneer DVD-115 is the slave on the secondary channel

 

I have done the following (in no particular order):

Got the latest BUS Master drivers for the AMD chipset on the motherboard,

Got the ASPI32.dll for Windows 2000 version 4.60 (1021)

installed Adaptec's UDF Reader

 

I think the drive is being detected as a DVD drive because the est Region tab is listed on its properties under Device Manager.

Reading some of the other postings to do with DVD problems I saw someone mention about looking at the device under storage in computer management (Storage, Physical locations, right click and properties)- I tried adding DVD-ROM 1 sided on the media tab, and it said 'The medium is not compatible with the devicve or media pool'

 

Hope someone can help me. Any ideas/comments/questions welcome.

[~Aragorn~ 0]

ok this will seem a bit extreme but i had the same problem with a PCF cd and the way i fixed it seems a bit strange. i had read a thing on sigma designs page about some dvd's not playing right and you had to disable UDFS (the CD filesystem) i tried it and it actually worked - and i could still read normal cd's - i also have a pioneer drive only mines is the DVD-105s (slot loader)

 

here you go

1. open regedit and goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\

2.find UDFS and rename to OLDUDFS

3. goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services

4. rename UDFS to OLDUDFS

5. reboot then enjoy

[D_Williams 0]

Thanks ~Aragorn~ it works!!!!! I can read DVD's properly now.