Vista DVD Drive Vanishing Trick · 9 October 2007, 12:54
Well, it seems that there are a myriad of articles on something similar to what I’m experiencing (My DVD drive disappears!, Windows Vista – Missing CD/DVD-Rom drive), but they all differ from mine in one substantial point… my DVD drive traps the CD or DVD last put into it until I reboot, too.
So far, this only seems to happen if I’m busy writing to DVD or CD with Roxio Creator, my CD/DVD burning program (it came bundled with the laptop): my DVD drive will vanish. Sometimes, it’ll vanish after I’ve successfully burnt one copy of a DVD / CD, sometimes, it’ll vanish after three… it never seems to quit on me the first time, though. It seems to happen in some obscure combination of factors I’ve yet to figure out, the minute I slide in a new disc. I don’t even know if the new disc has to be empty or not, all where this has happened so far have been empty, but I personally doubt it makes a difference.
The thing is, Roxio never fully crashes. It simply gets stuck in an infinite loop. It doesn’t tell me, “There is no DVD drive”, or “Please insert a CD/DVD”, or “Please insert an empty CD/DVD”. It doesn’t give me any feedback at all, it just hangs.
If I check my drives via My Computer after it starts to hang, the drive is missing. Refreshing the drive display doesn’t change anything. Closing Roxio with the Task Manager and refreshing the drive display doesn’t change anything, either. Only rebooting seems to help… but helps every time.
Until I reboot, the drive doesn’t respond physically, either. Trying to prompt it to open doesn’t make it do anything, though the light is on. It almost seems like a hardware issue to me, despite so many statements from people assuming it’s a fault of Vista’s. Hm. I’m torn on that one.
My drive is a TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632D. It doesn’t seem to be causing troubles on Windows 2000 – but then, I’ve never tried burning anything on Windows 2000, since I don’t have a respective program installed on it.
I’m at work right now – back on Windows 2000 because this is where I have most of my webdeveloping programs set up just the way I want them – and plugging keywords about this into search engines doesn’t seem to be yielding anything other than smart guesses, though I’ll try the registry trick mentioned in Windows Vista – Missing CD/DVD-Rom drive when I’m home. I’ll report back if it worked – and if I could even find the key – but I’m doubting it, somehow.
Help would be appreciated.
— Neike Taika-Tessaro
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