Goldenvoice
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Joined: 12 May 2008
Location: United States
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My OEM Pioneer DVR-104 in my 5 year old (or so) Sony Vaio Desktop has decided to write illegible gibberish - me thinks, as standard files cannot be read off disks written with it.
History: I ran my FS9 game disk in it until mid-winter, when attempting to load the game caused the computer to re-boot.
More recently, I experienced problems writing photo jpeg files to CD to share with a friend - the disks were unreadable - in my machine and hers. I checked and reloaded drivers.
I did note a driver - GEARAspiWDM.sys - searched Google - and found mention of a possible conflict with this iTunes driver. I then tried writing an audio disk with iTunes, and the disk plays just fine, but I need this drive as an all around - not just audio.
I'd been using this drive with both iTunes, and Windows, for over a year, without fault, but...
So, I un-installed iTunes. This made no difference - I still can't write standard files to CD.
I then found myself knee deep in disassembling the drive, made sure the lens was clean, and re-installed...
No difference. So, I'm assuming the drive is tired and needs replacing. ?
Odd, however, iTunes was still writing to this drive flawlessly...
Sorry this is lengthy, and wordy, but - that's my story - not sure what else to try, but to replace it, and hope that solves the problem.
So - any help on the above - great - and otherwise:
The old DVR-104 connection is listed as ATAPI-5
The new DVR-115D is listed as ATA-7
Will I have to buy some new cable, or something (as a downtown tech tried to convince me today - I'm assuming he simply wants me to pay HIM to install it)
...or will I simply be able to 'plug and play' this device where the old one was?
Thanks for the help - helps allot!
Joe
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