DVD Burner won't recognize Discs

[Chewy]

setarip in june: "With no insult intended, based on your apparent limited technical knowledge, you may want to have a technician deal with your problem, rather than risk doing further damage to it yourself..."

Has your system had a clean install?

[varanus87]

The last time I reinstalled windows was six months ago.

[Chewy]

I loaded Windows 3 times in 6 months on a stateoftheart BOX, damn ABIT/AMD
for not ever giving me the right amd64 driver.

that said, does the usb work right after the clean install???????

[varanus87]

Well I'll reinstall Windows as soon as I can and let you know how it goes...nothing else in the device manager is giving me problems but i quess it's worth a shot.

[varanus87]

I tried to download the update again and got farther, but it says the path of the executable is not in the registry. What does this mean, and how do I fix it? Before I reinstall windows, I want to make sure that a software update will or will not not resolve my problem.

[Chewy]

Most usb2 drivers are meant for older OperatingSystems, not windows xp, and
certainly not servicepack2, MS is quite adamant about that.

[varanus87]

The thing that stumps me is that my other one was working just fine before...

[varanus87]

Got a new computer and had the same problem. Guess I'll have to get another new dvd burner. I'll post an update in the near future.

[Chewy]

AVOID LAPTOPS AND EXTERNAL DVD BURNERS,
oh was I yelling, well let me just say they are inherently
problematic(they suck).

[varanus87]

I got the new burner and it works on my new computer. I'll try it a few times that and let you know if it works on my old comp.

[varanus87]

Works on my old computer. I guess my issue was just a bad burner.

[jmet]

Glad you solved your problem!