OK, I have an LG GSA-4120B DVDR drive thats now MIA. I think it may have stopped working when I installed dvd fab. It prompted me to change a setting and I agreed, but don't remember which one. Or it may have been when I enabled Nero image drive. Whatever the reason, I need help to get it working again. When I put in a disk, nothing happens. I tried to install a driver from the LG site, but the computer won't see the drive to apply the driver. The computer says it's working properly, and will open and close the tray, but that's it. I uninstalled the drive and rebooted but nothing. I noticed that the computer lists 2 DVD drives. F the usual one as DVD RAM, and G as just DVD. I've only got the one dvd drive (F) so I'm not sure what the second is about (G). I've got a bunch of dvd's to burn, so please let me know if you can think of anything. Thanks.
With all those drives, I hope you have SerialATA. In a perfect world, your burner would be the Master on its own controller. Are you running all those drives on two IDE controllers? I suspect your new G:\ drive is a virtual drive (it mounts images of DVDs and your PC thinks they are DVDs). You can disable it from Nero if you're not using it (or at least till you get things sorted out...) L8R
To tell you the truth , I don't know. The drive was installed by a freind of a freind. I don't know what a Serial ATA is, but I'm guessing it's better than the IDE thing. Nero info tool says: Primary IDE channel; Master Maxtor 5T060H6 DMA on Secondary IDE Channel; Master HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE 8160B DMA on, Autorun on Slave; HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4120B DMA on, Autorun on Unknown Adapter; ID 0 (0): AXV CD/DVD-ROM 2.2a Autorun on Virtual drive, that's interesting. Thanks for responding.
The master on your secondary controller seems to be a 2002 model LG CD burner. Do yourself a favour and YANK it - your DVD burner replaces it (it burns CDs too :^) It's not like your old CD burner is a 3-sheep Plextor or whatever; it is redundant and expendable. Dunno if will fix your problems but, it's a start...
OK, thanks man. I'll do that. I figured it would be good to have the cd drive still to relieve stress on the dvdr. The thought was the dvdr would last longer if I only used it for dvd related tasks. Is that a missconception on my part?
OK, so swaped the jumpers and cables on the drives and, nothing. Mother fu ker! Looks like I'll have to shell out for a new one. If you can think of anything else let me know. Thanks.
if using xp than try doing a system restore to before you loaded that problem program as probably a software issue not hardware!!
My computer won't restore. It always fails, I don't know why. I had a tech partition the drive, so I could restore the ghost image from D. Nothing has worked. I went out today and got a new drive, no more drama.
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Go to Control Panel. Go to system. go to hardware tab. got to Device Manager. Remove all CD/DVD Devices. Exit Remove any virtual drive software Reboot and let windows reinstall CD/DVD and see if that works before messing with hardware.
