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II want to burn an audio CD on my W7 PC with its single DVD RW drive.
I am having problems. Although the BIOS recognizes the internal*disk drive, and will boot from it, W7 will not recognize the drive at all.** Strangely,* file explorer shows a strange disk drive P, but it never works.* Keeps saying 'Insert a disk' even tho there is a disk in the one*internal drive.* I opened the box and replaced the internal DVDRW drive connection (which is SATA8) with another DVDRW drive.* The BIOS acts the same, and the drive again will boot.* However file explorer now shows a second drive F with a disk in it (which there is).* It will read the disk.* It will play an audio*CD and a video DVD therein. Still shows the strange Drive P. II think I need to replace the internal DVDRW drive with the second one.* No choice.* But what is file explorer *drive P?* It does nothing seemingly. Thanks Sam |
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On Tue, 16 May 2017 10:14:40 -0400, John McGaw
wrote: On 5/16/2017 8:33 AM, wrote: II want to burn an audio CD on my W7 PC with its single DVD RW drive. I am having problems. Although the BIOS recognizes the internal disk drive, and will boot from it, W7 will not recognize the drive at all. Strangely, file explorer shows a strange disk drive P, but it never works. Keeps saying 'Insert a disk' even tho there is a disk in the one internal drive. I opened the box and replaced the internal DVDRW drive connection (which is SATA8) with another DVDRW drive. The BIOS acts the same, and the drive again will boot. However file explorer now shows a second drive F with a disk in it (which there is). It will read the disk. It will play an audio CD and a video DVD therein. Still shows the strange Drive P. II think I need to replace the internal DVDRW drive with the second one. No choice. But what is file explorer drive P? It does nothing seemingly. Thanks Sam Under computer management - Storage - Disk Management what does the computer have to say for itself? For example, on my present system if I go to this location and select my BlueRay DVD and chose properties - Details - Property 'Hardware IDs' I see "SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1.02 SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_ SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-ST SCSI\HL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1 HL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1 GenCdRom" Or you could look at 'Friendly name' which is less overwhelming. All sorts of other information is available including drivers and such -- you might want to look at the error flags too. I am familiar with Disk Management. I hadn't loked at it tho, for this problem. It shows nothing for either the phantom P cd drive nor the undetected F dvdrw drive. Thanks - it was a good idea. Sam |
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On Tue, 16 May 2017 13:04:34 -0400, wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2017 10:14:40 -0400, John McGaw wrote: On 5/16/2017 8:33 AM, wrote: II want to burn an audio CD on my W7 PC with its single DVD RW drive. I am having problems. Although the BIOS recognizes the internal disk drive, and will boot from it, W7 will not recognize the drive at all. Strangely, file explorer shows a strange disk drive P, but it never works. Keeps saying 'Insert a disk' even tho there is a disk in the one internal drive. I opened the box and replaced the internal DVDRW drive connection (which is SATA8) with another DVDRW drive. The BIOS acts the same, and the drive again will boot. However file explorer now shows a second drive F with a disk in it (which there is). It will read the disk. It will play an audio CD and a video DVD therein. Still shows the strange Drive P. II think I need to replace the internal DVDRW drive with the second one. No choice. But what is file explorer drive P? It does nothing seemingly. Thanks Sam Under computer management - Storage - Disk Management what does the computer have to say for itself? For example, on my present system if I go to this location and select my BlueRay DVD and chose properties - Details - Property 'Hardware IDs' I see "SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1.02 SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_ SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-ST SCSI\HL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1 HL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1 GenCdRom" Or you could look at 'Friendly name' which is less overwhelming. All sorts of other information is available including drivers and such -- you might want to look at the error flags too. I am familiar with Disk Management. I hadn't loked at it tho, for this problem. It shows nothing for either the phantom P cd drive nor the undetected F dvdrw drive. Thanks - it was a good idea. I This is a dual-boot W7W10 PC. My prior posts pertain to the W7 drive. I booted the W10 drive and the dcdrw drive does not appear in file explorer as with W7. W10 Disk Management does not show either drive too. The 'phantom' cd drive does not show in W10 file explorer tho. It did in W7. Just wanted to add this. Thanks Sam |
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On Tue, 16 May 2017 13:04:34 -0400, wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2017 10:14:40 -0400, John McGaw wrote: On 5/16/2017 8:33 AM, wrote: II want to burn an audio CD on my W7 PC with its single DVD RW drive. I am having problems. Although the BIOS recognizes the internal disk drive, and will boot from it, W7 will not recognize the drive at all. Strangely, file explorer shows a strange disk drive P, but it never works. Keeps saying 'Insert a disk' even tho there is a disk in the one internal drive. I opened the box and replaced the internal DVDRW drive connection (which is SATA8) with another DVDRW drive. The BIOS acts the same, and the drive again will boot. However file explorer now shows a second drive F with a disk in it (which there is). It will read the disk. It will play an audio CD and a video DVD therein. Still shows the strange Drive P. II think I need to replace the internal DVDRW drive with the second one. No choice. But what is file explorer drive P? It does nothing seemingly. Thanks Sam Under computer management - Storage - Disk Management what does the computer have to say for itself? For example, on my present system if I go to this location and select my BlueRay DVD and chose properties - Details - Property 'Hardware IDs' I see "SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1.02 SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_ SCSI\CdRomHL-DT-ST SCSI\HL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1 HL-DT-STBD-RE__WH16NS40_1 GenCdRom" Or you could look at 'Friendly name' which is less overwhelming. All sorts of other information is available including drivers and such -- you might want to look at the error flags too. I am familiar with Disk Management. I hadn't loked at it tho, for this problem. It shows nothing for either the phantom P cd drive nor the undetected F dvdrw drive. Thanks - it was a good idea. I This is a dual-boot W7W10 PC. My prior posts pertain to the W7 drive. I booted the W10 drive and the dcdrw drive does not appear in file explorer as with W7. W10 Disk Management does not show either drive too. The 'phantom' cd drive does not show in W10 file explorer tho. It did in W7. Just wanted to add this. Thanks Sam Do you have any virtual CD software installed ? Roxio, InCD, Nero, something along those lines ? You can load an ISO with such software, to make a virtual CD drive letter. On Win10, mounting an ISO is a built-in function, so you don't need to buy any additional software. Win10 mounts .vhd files (as HDD) and .iso files (as ODD) with drive letters as appropriate. The further back in OSes you go, the less functionality. In WinXP, you need a third-party virtual CD software for ISO files. And a copy of the stand-lone VHDMount from Microsoft, for virtual machine hard drives. VHDMount will only mount a VHD if the C: file system is NTFS. If C: is FAT32, it'll refuse to mount a .vhd file for you. Some virtual CD software is nasty. It presents a read-only CD/DVD drive letter. Great. However, if at that point, you execute *burner* software, when it "sniffs" the virtual CD, it can lock up trying to access the read-only virtual CD. Paul |
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On Tue, 16 May 2017 20:49:48 +0100 (BST), "Rodney Pont"
wrote: On Tue, 16 May 2017 15:17:18 -0400, wrote: I This is a dual-boot W7W10 PC. My prior posts pertain to the W7 drive. I booted the W10 drive and the dcdrw drive does not appear in file explorer as with W7. W10 Disk Management does not show either drive too. The 'phantom' cd drive does not show in W10 file explorer tho. It did in W7. Just wanted to add this. Is this with a disc in the drive? Empty drives can be hidden. There is a setting to only show drives with a disc in them but I don't know where it is offhand. Tried it both ways. Sam |
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