[Billywong]

OK so my DVD drive will not read disks but appears as a CD Rom drive in My Computer. I have a LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1H.


So how it all started, my DVD drive stopped reading disks a few months ago. I searched through a bunch of different forums and found a suggestion to remove the Upper and Lower Filters from the registry as someone had stated that this was a known but unfixed bug of Vista. At the time I made a backup of the registry as suggested. It would then read disks again.


Then just recently it has stopped reading them again. I can't find where I made the backup so I have been unable to restore the registry. When I open device manager it has the device listed but has the little yellow ! caution sign there. When looking at the properties it says "This device cannot start (Code 10)" it also has a check for solutions button, but when I click on this nothing actually seems to happen.


I tried updating the driver but it says that the most current driver is installed but shows a CD-Rom. I also tried uninstalling it and then restarting the computer but still no go.


I then took a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105 out of my old computer and replaced the LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1H but I am still having all of the same problems.


I should also mention, I made sure that all leads where connected properly. The drive has power and will open. I am thinking that it is all to do with these Upper/Lower filters that have been removed.


I would be very grateful to anyone who can help me on this, as I am plum out of ideas on what to do. I am really stuck, please someone help me.

[Billywong]

I have resolved this, a program had installed another Upper Filter, which I deleted and now its working again!!!