MurkCity

The Drive Im using to burn eveything on is acting up. it havn't let me burn nuttin for the pass couple of weeks now

i checked it in the device manger an it says its working properly an its enabled to record...

can any one help me fix my problem to why my drive is not working correctly..thanks ahead of time

i have check the device manger it says every thing is working properly

mommabear

What program are you using to burn? What are you trying to burn? CDs, DVDs, or does it fail for both?

In the meantime, check to see if you have reverted from DMA to PIO. Windows will do that after x-amount of unsuccessful tries. There's a nice guide with pictures here and that "might" be all that's needed.

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=61905

MurkCity

Im buring with Windows media player...an it wont burn dvds or cds...okay i check in the first IDE channel..Device 0 says transfer mode dma and current transfer ultra dma 5...an in the bottom half on Device 1 it say dma in the transfer mode an in the Current transfer mod it say Not Applicable....what does that mean...

i was following the thread u gave me to slove the problem...but when i saw that one of the modes said Not Applicable...i didnt know weither keep following the guide or not so do i still uninstall an let windows reinstall the drivers still?

mommabear

I use other software for my burning and I don't use WMP, so I really can't help much further. It's the Secondary IDE channel that gets kicked into PIO. If it's still in DMA, then you've got other problems. Hopefully someone familiar with the program you use will come along and can help you more. It probably won't hurt anything to uninstall the drivers and let Windows reinstall them. Might even help...

MurkCity

thats what im hoping i can do is uninstall an reinstall to see if it works...So your sure windows will reinstall the drives automatically i restart an boot up again?

dai

use the free version of deepburner
http://www.deepburner.com/?r=download
remove the upper and lower filters
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=k...060&x=12&y=13#

MurkCity

deepburner doesnt work with it either tried it all ready...an i did that uninstall reinstall thing now the current transfer mode of my Secondary Ide Channel Is PIO...i thought the it was supposed to switch to Dma mode after windows reinstalls them?


Here is a pic it looks like this

dai

http://sniptools.com/tipstricks/gett...-in-windows-xp

MurkCity

the regedit program cant find that .reg.........is there any other way to fix my problem other than buying a new drive

dai

if you install a new drive and it is a reg problem your likely to find the same problem occurs

MurkCity

so basically theres nothing i can do about the problem i got with cant burn cds/dvds

dai

can you try the drive on another computer to check that it is the drive before forking out for a new one

mommabear

Sometimes I've had trouble making the manual reset to DMA stick. This registry file has always worked for me. It's almost the same as the registry fixes at the Sniptools link.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/f74/reg-fil...dma-xp-124001/