DVD drive not "finding" disks.

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LordJaffa

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I'm not sure how to explain this but my system isn't recognising disks properly. They will not autorun at all, the disk titles won't appear on the drive label despite being able to explore the disk fully regardless.

The last and more recent problem that has occurred is that I can't use Media Player or MPC to watch DVD videos! which is a pain because they're the two least cumbersome programs I've come across for playing videos.

I've also just bought a brand new SATA DVD/RW drive (The old one is IDE) and they're both having the same problems, pretty much ruling out hardware failure. Has anyone got an idea of what I could do to remedy this? Because it's becoming a real pain having to find new programs to rip CDs and watch DVDs on.
 
Sounds like there is a problem in your OS, since you replaced the drive w/ a new one.

When was the last time you installed your OS? Ran a virus scan lately? Do you use any virtual drives?
 
My current install is a year old now and I did have Daemontools installed, but uninstalling it didn't solve the problem. I may put it back on and manually deactivate the virtual drives, see if that helps.

I'll run a virus scan now, see if it can spot anything.
 
sounds like something you installed took away file associations from you DVD apps. and CD apps. Could have done a system restore much earlier, that's if you have it turned on in your os. Did you check if autorun is on? You could take half your day (j/k) and go through the file extensions list in windows explorer and try to associate things manually.
 
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