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WinDVD 3/5 sez "Cann't find any cdrom/dvdrom device" - but File Manager can read all files on the drive!
I get the message "Cann't find any cdrom/dvdrom device" from WinDVD!
I am running Win98 (SE), all latest M$ updates loaded. WinDVD 3 used to work perfectly (for about two years). I don't know when it stopped working, but I noticed the problem a few days after I had upgraded from DirectX v8 to DirectX v9 on the Microsoft website. BUT the problem may have been there earlier, as it is months since I played a DVD on the machine. BUT in Windows (File) Manager the DVDROM drive (Z: - as it always has been) is listed, and the files on it are fully readable! Audio CDs play perfectly. And I can play DVDs by manually getting WinDVD to play the .VOB files on the Z: drive. Of course, that means manually selecting another file every 20 minutes or so (yech), and I lose all the DVD's menu features. Which is why I don't think it is anything to do with the graphics card, which is an ATI AGP 4x 32Mb card. What I have tried so far... - deinstalling and reinstalling WinDVD 3 - updating drivers for the ATI video card - deinstalling the DVDROM device (a Toshiba) from the StartSettingsControl PanelSystemDevice Manager menu, and letting Windows automatically reinstall it on rebooting. Device Manager shows no bad devices - downloading some "ASPI" updates from the Adaptec site, which seemed to be to do with SCSI but had some relevance (I read on Google) - running Norton Systemworks diagnostics - on the Multimedia diagnostics, it pops up the same "Cann't find any cdrom/dvdrom device" error message in a window with title bar "WinDVD". No errors shown with Norton "Windows Doctor". - looking through Google - a few others have reported the same error message, but no resolution (I emailed them too) - downloading WinDVD 5 trial and using it instead: pressing Play does nothing (as if there was no DVD in the drive) - updating the M/Board BIOS (yes, desparation) but nothing has changed the problem one tiny bit. HELP!! Isn't this weird? The DVDROM and all the files are fully accessible as a drive (Z, but WinDVD (v3 and now also v5) cannot find it. HELP!! |
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