Hey, new to the forum, but not new to the world of dvd's, yet am completely at a loss for what to do about this problem. My 4-year-old toshiba laptop with a sd-r2002 combo drive will only read one dvd per restart. This applies to dvd-videos, and dvd+r's. Example: I have several dvd+r backups which I was searching through the other night for something specific. I put in disc 1. My computer happily read disc 1 with gusto. What I was looking for was not on disc 1, so I put in disc 2, which my computer refused to acknowledge existed. Same story on discs 3 and 4. When I put disc 1 back in, it like it just fine. After restarting, I tried disc 2, which worked (and had what I was looking for), but not disc 1 now. I am completely at a loss as to what to do. I have recently formatted, re-insutalled the driver modules for winxp from toshiba's website, re-flashed the firmware on the drive, and hunted (unsuccessfully) for updated drivers. Any help would be appreciated
You can try this, it worked for me on my old laptop which seemed to develope the same problem...It may be a fouled up autoplay setting, so that the autoinsert notification is being lost. Microsoft people have written an unofficial fix up tool for Autoplay. Without great confidence, I suggest you try it - it is not on a MSoft site, but can be downloaded from Http://www.bigblackglasses.com/staff/downloads/autofix.exe Original link..http://www.howtofixcomputers.com/bb/sutra618658.html
Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't appear to have helped. The problem has now degredated to the point where it doesn't even read dvd's anymore. I have seen this problem before, and a re-format / windows install fixed the problem temporarily, but I would sincerely love to avoid that as a necessary fix every two weeks. Question - when you had a similar problem, would the disc populate when you go to the "volumes" tab in the hardware properties of the drive? 'cause mine doesn't... it just sits and reads for a while and tells me there's nothing there. A little frustrated, really.
I'm convinced microsoft's website was designed with only obscure problems in mind. Specifically problems that aren't mine.
Can't quite remember exactly, but it did cure it when I did it. I however end up formatting and reloading my pc quite often, as irritating problems do tend to come up now and again. I now manage to do a full reload with all my other drivers and software within an hour so it's something I'm quite happy to do anyway.
