• Roxio Drag-to-Disc fucked up my USB DVD-RW drive.
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I've been using Drag-to-Disk after installing it a couple months back (I got it for 50 cents) and realized it was a piece of shit. I tried to uninstall it with no luck finding any kind of uninstaller whatsoever, and just yesterday I just went in to it's program files folder and deleted whatever it would let me. Then it stopped working. I found a guide online that said to use msconfig to remove it from the startup list, but it still won't work. When I start up my dvd drive it doesn't work now, even though everything is plugged in properly and a blank disk is in the disk drive. So in short, HALP!
Bump hopefully, I need help!
First, make sure all traces of Drag-to-Disk are gone and that nothing related to it is running at startup. Then, right-click My Computer, go to Manage. Choose the Device Manager. Find your DVD drive, right-click it, and choose uninstall. Restart. When Windows boots up again, it will reinstall drivers for the drive. (You may need to restart a second time.) See if this helps. Also, Vista and W7 let you use a rewritable disk like a USB drive (copy to, move to, delete, in real-time) out of the box so you don't need this kind of software.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;17402314]First, make sure all traces of Drag-to-Disk are gone and that nothing related to it is running at startup. Then, right-click My Computer, go to Manage. Choose the Device Manager. Find your DVD drive, right-click it, and choose uninstall. Restart. When Windows boots up again, it will reinstall drivers for the drive. (You may need to restart a second time.) See if this helps. Also, Vista and W7 let you use a rewritable disk like a USB drive (copy to, move to, delete, in real-time) out of the box so you don't need this kind of software.[/QUOTE] I love you! Now I can finally make discs again!!! Plus, my CD drive (which I don't use anyway) works now too!
Actually, I'm having another problem. I've noticed that the dropdown menu when I right click on things still says "Add to disc with disc to drive" and when I move a disc from one computer to another, it doesn't work, saying that 0 of 0 bytes are used space. I looked into the problem and read somewhere that the drivers for drag to disk have to be installed on any computer that the disk is on to be read properly. And I absolutely refuse to put the drivers on that computer.
Drag to Disk might use some kind of proprietary file system. I know that even with the similar functionality that Vista has, it warns you that pre-XP machines may not be able to read it. Packet writing (the method this program and others use to make a disk function similar to a regular drive) can be rather unreliable at times. If you really need the data off of the disks that you used with Drag to Disk, you may need to reinstall it temporarily. Otherwise, just format them. As for the dropdown menu, it's probably just a remnant left from a really shitty uninstaller. [b]HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers[/b] is the place in the registry where programs latch on to the context menu, but if you're not comfortable in the registry or can't tell which one is the Drag to Disk entry you probably shouldn't fiddle with it. (Or just make a backup first) Which OS are you using? If you're on Vista (and I assume Windows 7), you can already "drag to disk" as the OS supports packet writing. I think SP3 on XP added the functionality on that OS too, but I'm not sure. Keep me updated, I'll try to help more if you need it.
I could reinstall drag to disk, but it wouldn't help. I need the drivers to be on any computer that I put the disk in for it to work after it has been in the one with the drag to disk drivers on it. I am using Windows XP, but may be getting 7 soon. I think there may be a button on drag-to-disk that prepares the disk for use on another computer, but I'll look into that.
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