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    LG BD-RE drive doesn’t read DVDs

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    by jaymzkerten ·

    I’m having issues getting my computer to be able to read DVDs. I have an LG GBW-H20L blu-ray SATA drive which seems to read CDs just fine, but I cannot get it to read DVDs (I’m unsure about its blu-ray capabilities as I currently do not have any blu-ray disks). I am currently running Windows 7 Ultimate RC on a custom built computer.

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    • #3021659

      Clarifications

      by jaymzkerten ·

      In reply to LG BD-RE drive doesn’t read DVDs

      Clarifications

    • #3021636

      Try booting off the Windows 7 Install Disc

      by oh smeg ·

      In reply to LG BD-RE drive doesn’t read DVDs

      That’s a DVD so if it runs the DVD Drive is OK but you may very well have issues with the OS once it is installed.

      Depending on which type of 7 you are using 32 or 64 Bit I have heard some strange faults with the 64 Bit Versions of 7 which may be contributing to this issue.

      They all relate to hardware just not working but when you change to a 32 Bit OS everything is perfect.

      Col

      • #3021553

        No install disk

        by jaymzkerten ·

        In reply to Try booting off the Windows 7 Install Disc

        As I am still running off of the release candidate, I never had an install disk for the OS. Also, I’m running the 32-bit OS already.

        • #3021538

          Well any Boot DVD will do here

          by oh smeg ·

          In reply to No install disk

          But just how did you install 7 without a Install Disc. Every version that I have used from the earliest Beta to the RC all have come from M$ as ISO’s that needed to be burnt to DVD.

          Also I suppose that it’s possible that your DVD Burner isn’t supported by 7 though being a Blue Ray it’s not likely. Did you at least first test this system with the Windows 7 Upgrade Adviser to see if all of the hardware was supported?

          http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyid=1b544e90-7659-4bd9-9e51-2497c146af15

          Col

        • #3021465

          No Bluray listed

          by jaymzkerten ·

          In reply to Well any Boot DVD will do here

          I guess I don’t really remember; I remember getting the ISO but I don’t recall if I burned it to a disk that I can’t find now or if I mounted it with an ISO loader, but I’ll look into finding the image and burning it.

          As for the upgrade advisor, it did not list my drive at all for compatibility, and when I went to check their hardware list on microsoft’s site it did not list bluray drives at all anywhere.

        • #2838672

          Well as I said above

          by oh smeg ·

          In reply to No Bluray listed

          I didn’t think that the Blue Ray Drive would be a problem as these are too new.

          However it is just possible that it’s an Issue I remember years ago with a CD Burner that caused the partition Information to be wiped when you applied SP1 for XP. That Samsung Drive was listed as Compatible with the Service Pack though after much pain & suffering it wasn’t. 😉

          Col

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