Help! For all the experts...My DVD cannot read regular CD roms or Music CDs but can read DVDs

[Cipherous]

I've been doing some research on why my DVD drive doesn't read regular CDs but plays DVD just fine

I am running Windows XP
Toshiba DVD SD-c2502 on a Compaq Presario 700 laptop (running Ultra DMA mode)

there are two types of formats for writing discs
-UDF (DVDs,CDRs and CDRWs are written in this format)
-ISO (regular CDs and music CDs as well)

I've tried flashing my DVD rom firmwear and tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drive and it still cannot read regular CD roms.

I think it might be at the OS level where the DVD rom cannot read ISO formats but can read UDF formats. Whenever I try to run a regular CD or a music CD, I get

"Windows cannot read this format...disk maybe corrupted"

Note: The disk I tried to run are official MS disks and other legit CD roms (not burned).

can anybody help?

 

[alzan]

Has this always been the case since you bought the system, or had you been able to read CD-R's previously? You might try deleting your IDE channel that the drive is connected to and then letting XP re-detect it.

alzan

 

[johnjkr1]

The cd laser in the drive could be dead.

 

[nork]

Thats what i was thinking, if the cd laser is dead but the dvd laser is good then you will see this happen, it will only read dvd cds.
The ide removal idea is a good one though as xp will pick it up again with no prob and re-install it.
Do you have via chipset at all?

 

[johnjkr1]

Try booting to a cd, or reading on in dos (boot floppy)..if it fails there, your dvd rom's cdrom reading capability is shot for sure.

 

[Richard98]

Do you have any packet writing software installed, such as Nero InCD? I had the same problem with my DVD drive until I uninstalled InCD.

 

[Cipherous]

Hmmm it seems that

I need a CDFS component to my file systems directory according to this MSDN help file

it seems that its a problem instrinsic to the OS. I just have to undo some changes I guess.

DVDs and CDRs and CDRWs are written in UDFS (universal directory file system), and thats probably the file system component I have installed.

thanks for all the input, I'll keep you guys updated.

 

[imported_bbomb]

I have a similiar problem. I have a Pioneer DVR-104 DVD drive. It has always played and burned dvd's, cd's, cd-r's, cd-rw's, dvd-r's, and dvd-rw's. It can still read and burn dvd's but when it comes to cd's it just quit. It won't recognize any type of cd at all. Tried to boot using my WinXP cd and it said no disc was in the drive. Tried in DOS mode and it wont recognize anything. It has the 1.33 (or something close) firware on it and the Pioneer update checkers program thingy said that it was the latest firmware available.

Am I looking for a new DVD burner? If so then I damn sure won't get a Pioneer drive.

 

[johnjkr1]

If your drive won't boot to a cd or can not read a disc in dos mode, it's dead. RMA the drive.

 

[imported_bbomb]

Well that bites. I will just revert back to my trusty old 4x cd-rom that I have had since my first computer back in 1995. They just cant make hardware as good as they used to can they?

 

[johnjkr1]

dvd drives are twice as complicted since they have to have two lasers, a combo burner is even more complex. But yeah, they don't build them like they used to. If your not going to RMA it, can I have it????