http://www.dslreports.com/forum/NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22619933 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:34:00 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:34:00 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22629538
So I concur, bad RW laser.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22629538 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:28:31 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22628525
RW drives use 2 lasers - one to read, one to write, so it's possible the read laser is failing, which is why the system can't read the discs, but the drive can still burn them.

Cheap enough to replace.

Have you tried one of the other system's DVD drives in your system, to eliminate the system as the problem? I'm sure it's the drive, but you never know. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22628525 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:28:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22620473
All problems appear to be fixed. Guess I finally "wore" out the old unit. I might getting the 3rd party firmware over at CDfreaks and apply it to the old 7170A and see if that fixes it. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22620473 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:07:53 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22620124
And yes, it's very possible a drive can burn a DVD correctly but later detects the disc as a CD. I've seen this behaviour on certain brands of (very old) Toshiba laptops.

Get in contact with the drive manufacturer. If you can't, stop buying Optiarc. I think it's that simple. :-)
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Had this Optiarc AD-7170A since 2006, burned 1,000's of DVD with it. All my DVD's are Taiyo Yuden Media (TY's).

This 7170A has the original firmware on it. Never been flashed.

Any DVD I put into it to read goes from DVD-RAM to "CD-ROM"

Just burned 4 DVD's yesterday, had no issues ejected the DVD's and filed them. Today, 7170A drive also gives me the "CD-ROM" nonsense these 4 DVD's also. The dvd's contain MP3's on them.

4 other PC's dvd drives in the house can read all 4 DVD's with no problems. It is as the 7170A is not sensing the DVD as a DVD and thinks it is a CD-ROM. I can pull 2 or 3 yr old DVD's that all PC's can read but the 7170A.

I have also deleted the "Lower Filters" reg entry. didn't fix it. I didn't have an upper filters

removed the drive from XP, didn't fix the problem.

XP still reads any DVD and drive goes from DVD-RAM to CDROM when reading any DVD. Double click on the drive give the message "Windows can not read from this disc. Disc may be corrupted....etc"

Again, 4 other dvd drives can read these DVD's.

I can't believe that this drive is dead. If that were the case, it wouldn't be able to burn DVD's correct?

don't remember the last time I needed to read an DVD, so I can't narrow down when this started.

XP Sp2 with all patches (No IE8), Nod32 V4 and Outpost Pro 2008 firewall installed on this PC.

Changing the letter worked for a shot time. But issue is back again. Google search brings up many people having this issue but nobody posts a true fix. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/NotFixedXP-sees-All-DVDs-as-CDROM-cant-read-them-22619933 Sat, 27 Jun 2009 10:40:44 EDT