I had XP 32-bit and got a brand new internal DVD drive. Worked perfectly for 8 months. 2 days ago I decided to upgrade to Windows 7. Things are going pretty good, it kept all the drivers it seems from Windows XP, but I decide I want to install one of my games and I notice the DVD drive recognizes there's a disc in there, but it practically just freezes. If I double click on the D:/ drive, my cursor turns into a loading cursor and it stays that way and nothing happens. Autoplay is on, but doesn't do anything. I tried uninstalling the drivers and restarting my PC, but as soon as I did that it wanted to auto-download drivers for it and did that.
The shit thing is that it's an LG drive, meaning if I want to download drivers for it manually, LG is a stupid piece of shit company and tell me to use Driver Genius or whatever; for those who don't know, it's some program that scans which drivers you are missing and supposedly is supposed to download them for you, but what they don't tell you is that you have to buy the program for it to download the drivers.
Any ideas?
Try another disk. If problem persists open your case and reseat the SATA cable connected to the drive.
Nope, didn't do anything. I'm still using an old SLAVE belt anyways.
[editline]13th January 2011[/editline]
Just now I realized it gave me a "D:\ - Application not found" error. It did this before I reseated it, but I just noticed now. Google said it was the autoplay options, so I changed the options and it did the same. Then I reset them to the default of Windows 7 and it still did the same. I am positive it's not the actual disc drive, just some fucked up drivers or registry or something; but I have no idea what or how to fix it. Anybody have an idea?
[editline]13th January 2011[/editline]
Currently the only disc it is allowing me to actually view is my DVD I burned of my "Linux distro". Anything else, a game or any other burned discs just don't load.
[editline]13th January 2011[/editline]
Hm it's Autoplay I guess. My Linux distro used an .iso file and I guess everything else is attempting to launch whatever is inside of it, but whenever it tries to run what's inside of there it doesn't work for some reason.
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