At wits end with DW-D22a

CD, DVD and (Ultra HD) Blu-ray Writers LiteOn / PLDS / Sony Writer
#1

I have spent the last 12hrs (on and off) trying to figure out what the yo is wrong with my drive… I have read countless threads on numerous sites and no luck… I am ready to rip my hair out.:sad::sad:

One day I was able to use my DW-D22a to burn DVDs and one day I go to use it and It just says PLEASE INSERT A DISK IN DRIVE D:

It can’t READ/WRITE any DVD’s but I can READ/WRITE CDs.

I went to hardware and Uninstalled many times it that way and still didn’t work…

I deleted the lower value in the REGISTRY… Still Didn’t work…

I had NERO 7 and I uninstalled it and still didn’t work.

Rebooted 45,000times and still didn’t work…

Tried 3 different harddrives with WINDOWS XP and still didn’t work…

I updated FIRMWARE to BYS6. still didn’t work…

Also this just happend a few weeks ago with my HP DVD WRITER 630c…
It wont read or write DVDs either.

Those two drives haven’t been hooked up at the same time…

I have a regular DVD ROM drive that READS DVD’s fine.

Can anyone please help me? It can’t be a coincidence that both drives would die around the same time could it?:a

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                        System Information

Operating System Information

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP
Operating System Product ID 55285-010-1387036-21343
Operating System Version Version 5.1 (Build 2600)
Computer Name arthurloncock

BIOS Information

BIOS Date 12/26/06
BIOS String 1 GBT - 42302e31
BIOS String 2 Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG

Video Card Information

Video Date 05/06/28
Screen Resolution 1280 x 1024

CPU (Processor) Information

CPU Speed (Calculated) 2.01GHz
CPU Type Intel® Core™2 CPU 4400 @ 2.00GHz
CPU (Processor) Family 6, Model 15, Stepping 2
Vendor Name Intel
CPU Features FPU, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, HTT, SSSE3, EST
Number of CPUs: 2
CPU 0 speed: (Registry) ~2009MHz
CPU 1 speed: (Registry) ~2009MHz
CPU L2 Cache Size 2048KB

Memory Information

Memory in use 42%
Total physical memory 2.00GB
Free available physical memory 1.14GB
Total paging file 2.60GB
Free available paging file 1.93GB
Total virtual memory 2.00GB
Free available virtual memory 1.91GB
Free extended memory 0.00GB

Drives Information

Drive C: free space 77.78GB

Optical Drives

Drive C: SONY DVD RW DW-D22A Firmware BYS6
Drive D: SONY DVD RW DW-D22A Firmware BYS6
Drive E: Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-116 Firmware 1.06

Other Drives

Drive C: Maxtor 6 L300R0 Firmware BAJ4

#2

Welcome to CD Freaks. :flower:

Do you have an alternate computer you could try the DVD burners on?

#3

Drives Information

[B]Drive C:[/B] free space 77.78GB

Optical Drives

[B]Drive C: [/B]SONY DVD RW DW-D22A Firmware BYS6
Drive D: SONY DVD RW DW-D22A Firmware BYS6
Drive E: Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-116 Firmware 1.06
Have you done a system restore lately?
Looks like your drives been mixed up somehow. (Once this was a problem on win2k OS’s. Never seen this on XP though.)

BTW, how are your drives hooked up. Nero InfoTool might be helpful to display this.

#4

[quote=wallace0134;1950432]Welcome to CD Freaks. :flower:

Do you have an alternate computer you could try the DVD burners on?[/quote]No…

#5

[quote=pinto2;1950495]Have you done a system restore lately?
Looks like your drives been mixed up somehow. (Once this was a problem on win2k OS’s. Never seen this on XP though.)

BTW, how are your drives hooked up. Nero InfoTool might be helpful to display this.[/quote]
i disabled restore… but that shouldn’t matter…
i’ve tried it on 3 different drives… with no luck…

what do you mean how are my drives hooked up?

#6

How are they connected?

#7

through a ribbon cable?

#8

I believe chef is asking how they are connected in the sense of:

HDD 1: Primary Master
HDD 2: Primary Slave
DVD writer: Secondary Master
DVD ROM: Secondary Slave

…Or the like. :iagree: