XP thinks my DVD drive is a CD drive.

I got a new DVD drive, and XP refuses to recognize it as a DVD drive. When I try to uninstall the CD drive drivers, it just automatically reinstalls them again. What do I do?

 

You don't need drivers for any optical drive.

Are you just using the one dvd/cd drive or do you have another? Check the jumper settings on the back of the drive too if you can.

 

If you can't read DVDs, I'd suspect additional drivers are loading, that shouldn't be for that drive.

Go to device manager, then properties for the device. Then click on the driver tab, and choose driver details.

What all is loading there?

 

well mine did that when i put a dvd in but it read as a dvd just some reason it does that

 

The problem is that the drive won't read DVDs. I've tried both data DVDs (which it reads as blank CDs) and video DVDs (which it reads as a single empty directory). Both it calls CDs, and neither will work the way it should.

 

Well, if you want help, I'd suggest you answer the questions we are asking.

 

There is another optical drive installed: a CD burner, which works just fine.

The jumper is set to master. I'm not sure that the other optical drive is set to slave as its jumper settings were not labeled, but I set it to what would have been slave on the DVD drive, and like I said the CD drive works fine.

I'm in Virginia and the computer itself is in Maryland so I can't check this at the moment. I'll try to get my girlfriend to check and to post what she finds on my name.

The drive came with Nero, which was already installed on the computer anyway. I have not tried to burn a DVD because the drive hasn't succeeded in even reading one yet.

 

I've had the exact same problem with both a Lite-On and a pioneer DVD-RW. I still have not been able to solve it short of re installing windows. The worst part is that it just decides to start doing it on it's own, no changes to the system. If I ever get it figured out I will post it here.

 

I've had trouble with DVD drives not being able to write DVDs (and acting funny when reading DVDs) if a 40-pin cable is being used. Not sure that's the problem, but you might want to swap your 40-pin IDE cable with an 80-pin one. (only if you have a 40-pin cable installed, obviously)