DVD drive stopped reading Installation CDs, Music CDs and Blank CDR media. Below is what I have tried already without success:
1- Deleted lower and upper filters that other burning software installed (recommended by Microsoft).
2- Disabled and uninstalled the drive several times.
3- Removed Nero and Roxio completely. Tried other 64 bit burning software hoping that it will install a new driver
on either lower or upper filter.
4- Copied a working version of cdrom.sys (which is the driver that Vista uses)to the default drivers folder
just in case the existing one was corrupted.
5- Ran sfc /scannow but it didn’t fix anything related to the drive.
6- Uninstall Service Pack 2 and didn’t work either. Installed it again hoping the original install went bad but
nothing…
7- Noticed that cdfs does not run as a service anymore but is currently installed. I know that Vista uses UDF now
but decided to enable the service to be running throught the Registry.. Nothing worked again!
8- Checked AutoPlay settings for Blank media with several options but nothing…
I don’t really want to do a system restore to factory setting and rather wait for my Windows 7 upgrade and see if it fixes the problem.
Thanks!