[Danesh]

Why a CD disk already containg some Word files of around 40 MB wrongly is recognized as a blank disk? It was not like that before, that is, it had been inserted in the same DVD drive of the same notebook a few days ago and had worked normally showing its said contents. Today, inserting it in the same DVD drive ends up with poping up of Autoply dialogue window asking to burn the said CD! Devices with Removable Storage part of Computer window shows the DVD RW Drive (E:) as 702 MB free of 702 MB while it is certainly of around 40 MB Word files! How can solve the problem? I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Thanks for your prompt valued

help.

This post has been edited by Danesh: 17 April 2012 - 06:41 AM

[ElfBane]

DVD drives have 2 lasers, one for DVD and one for CD. It sounds as if the CD laser has gone bad. You will need to buy a new DVD drive.

[coastie65]

What ED has said is true, The DVD & CD operate on two seperate wave lengths. The DVD may play and the CD not as the CD portion of the laser is gone. In this case, I'm not so sure. If the laser was gone, it wouldn't recognize the disk at all, but would ask to to insert a disk or some such thing, at least when trying open up an installed program such as a game. Thew best thing to do first, if you can, is try the disk in another drive.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 17 April 2012 - 07:28 AM

[Danesh]

Dear friends,
Thank you very much indeed for your prompt comments. I'd restarted the notebook in the hope of getting rid of the problem, to no avail. Frustrated, I shut down the notebook. Now that I turned it on after around 4 hours, and inserted the CD, it worked! It's ridiculous that now the same CD disk works normally as before in the same drive without any problem!

Anyway, I'm proud of you good friends.

[coastie65]

Danesh, on 17 April 2012 - 10:16 AM, said:

Dear friends,
Thank you very much indeed for your prompt comments. I'd restarted the notebook in the hope of getting rid of the problem, to no avail. Frustrated, I shut down the notebook. Now that I turned it on after around 4 hours, and inserted the CD, it worked! It's ridiculous that now the same CD disk works normally as before in the same drive without any problem!

Anyway, I'm proud of you good friends.

Hi Danesh, It could have been a driver issue in that it improperly loaded for some reason. After 4 hour shut down it may have loaded them as usual. Hard to say. This may also be helpful if it happens again: http://www.ehow.com/...rs-regedit.html

NOTE: You do not have to remove the Upper/Lower Filters.bak

This post has been edited by coastie65: 17 April 2012 - 12:06 PM

[Danesh]

Hi dear coastie65,
Thank you very much. You're quite right. Thanks again.