[Wftl-lug] Wierd DVD Drive problem with Dual Boot

[Joe Gulizia]

Thanks Mikey,

More detail now (though not at work ;)     ).

The machine in question is a Sony Vaio PCV-RS430G
desktop runing Kubuntu 7.04 and dual booting on
different hard drive with Windows XP Home.

It is a registry problem (getting an Error code 19)

I've tried several times going into the Device Manager
finding the black exclamation points with the yellow
background next to each DVD drive and using
"Uninstall" then "Scan for New Hardware".  It finds
the drives then reports that "there MIGHT be a problem
with the devices"  Corrupt or Damaged from what I
recall.

The drives themselves are a Pioneer® DVR-106 DVD±RW
Optical Drive and a Sony DW-U12A DVD-RW drive (I
downloaded and ran firmware updates from Sony's
website BUT I didn't see any difference, yet)

I've tried googling "error code 19" also with what I
feel are cryptic answers at best.

When I rebooted using the Recovery disks when I first
gotthe machine I got a BLUE SCREEN OF death stating
FATAL ERROR at (something I don't recall).  Doing the
ten-second power down brought everything back up okay.


I'm using Pinnacle Studio 10 Multi-Media Suite...I was
using CD Drag and Drop but that doesn't appear to work
as wellas trying a program from SourceForge called
BwgBurn but I ended up un-installing it when I noticed
the problem.

BTW I was able to successfully burn the Video DVD
using K3B on my work machine... I'm now wondering if
setting up Windows in a VMWare environment might be a
better solution? 


What in the Registry should I be looking at to edit?



--- Michael Rudas <audiotech50 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/4/07, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> 
> > I'm now using Kubuntu 7.04 at work along with
> > Windows XP.
> > My DVD-ROM Drive and DVD(plus minus)RW/CD-RW are
> > recognized and work fine under Linux but NOT XP.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply-- but the machine IS at
> work, right? :-)
> 
> It's unlikely in the EXTREME that Linux had anything
> to do with your
> problem, though it IS an outside possibility.  Is
> the PC a Dell?  In a
> few cases, Linux can overwrite a flash-memory area
> and cause wierd
> errors, though this is rare.
> 
> MUCH more common is Windows Registry or BIOS
> problems.  Before you go
> reinstalling WinXP (bleah), there's a few things you
> can try,
> depending upon how hardware-savvy you are:
> 
> * Watch as your PC boots up.  Early in the boot
> process, it will
> recognize the attached drives and enumerate them. 
> If it "sees" the
> hard drive(s) but not the optical drives, that's a
> clue-- but then
> Linux probably would not see them, either.
> 
> * The Registry is the most-likely suspect in this
> case.  There are
> several things that can cause optical drives to
> "disappear"-- the most
> common is the use of burner software that was
> written for Win9x, which
> can do wierd things to the WinNT Registry, requiring
> RegEdit to
> repair.  I ran into this problem with Click 'n'
> Burn, for example.  A
> first-line recovery would be to go into the "Device
> Manager".  The
> easiest way to do this is:
> use the [Win logo]+[Pause/Break] key combo to bring
> up the "System
> Properties" window, then select the "Hardware" tab,
> then click the
> "Device Manager" button.  Go to the DVD/CD-ROM area
> and display the
> drives.  If they are showing, right-click on each
> one and select
> "uninstall"-- then reboot and it should find them
> again.  If the
> drives are not showing-- or if a reboot does not
> clear the problem--
> you will have to edit the Registry.  Google "cd
> drive not recognized"
> WITHOUT the quotes for more info.
> 
> If you can, report from work with more details,
> including your Windows
> burning software and your discoveries to that point.
> 
> -- Mikey
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