confusion...

[Xylob the Destroyer]

DVD Shrink no longer recognizes my DVD drives correctly...
I have backed-up almost every single one of my DVD's using DVD Shrink in the past.

I recently got a very malicious bit of software on my PC. I finally got rid of it, but not before it did serious damage to my registry.
Prior to this 'infection', my ATI AIW 9000 Pro would not capture because despite how many times I installed the drivers (& despite how many HOURS I spent on the phone with ATI), every capture program would say that they weren't installed. I finally figured out that it was an IRQ conflict with my SoundBlaster...
Since my registry was now screwed & I would have to do a fresh install of Windows, I figured I might as well take the whole damn PC apart and clean it out real good, as well as move my expansion cards around to clear up the IRQ conflict(s).

Everything went great with the OS install, my capture card now works beautifully and my sound card works fine too.
BUT, DVD Shrink now sees my DVD drives as CD-ROM drives. Whenever I try to back up one of my DVD's using DVD Shrink, when I click on the drive with the DVD it just gives me the hour-glass mouse pointer and locks the PC up. Even Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn't do anything.
I have to turn the PC off and reboot.
I figured at first that maybe it was just 'thinking' about what it was doing, and even let it sit there for almost 45 minutes one time.

Can anybody tell me what's going on here?

Here's my config:
Windows Home edition
ASUS A7N8XE-Deluxe
Athlon XP 3200+
1G Ram
Maxtor hard drives:
C: = 40G
G: = 80G
H: = 160G
LG GSA4040B DVD burner
Sony DDU1613 DVD-ROM
SIIG UltraATA 133 PCI card http://www.siig.com/product.asp?pid=437

the burner is master (& only) device on the mobo's 2ndary IDE
the DVD-ROM is master (& only) device on the PCI card's 2ndary IDE

this is the exact same set-up that I had before and used successfully many, many times
the only thing that has changed is the fresh install of Windows and I moved the PCI card to a different slot

any help would be greatly appreciated
I have uninstalled and reinstalled DVD Shrink several times......
DVD Decrpter and several other programs still recognize the drives correctly
if I wasn't already losing my hair, I would be pulling it out!

[redwudz]

Something to try: Unplug the DVD ROM, then uninstall the channel the DVD burner is on. Boot. Hopefully that will reset the burner for shrink. Then plug the DVD ROM back in and boot again and see if it is now recognized properly.

I have ran into something similar to this before with more than one optical drive installed when reinstalling Windows. Seems it is something about the OS occasionally having problems properly recognizing the drives when there is two or more of them.

I have a DVD-ROM, a DVD burner and a CD-RW on one computer and had the same problem. Next time when I reformatted, I just started with one drive and added the others after the OS was up and running. Never figured out why it was happening.

[glockjs]

long shot but try running regclean4

[Poppa_Meth]

try going to control panel and double click Disc Detector. Make sure the enable box is checked and all drives are checked.

[Poppa_Meth]

here try this.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=C680A7B6-E8FA-45C4-A171-1B389...displaylang=en

It's microsoft's autoplay fixer. It found some problems with my primary DVD-ROM and with my firewire HDD enclosure. I haven't fully tested the results but it's worth a shot to see if it fixes your problems.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

hhmmm....
I have auto-play disabled.
I don't want anything running unless I tell it to.
But that's how I had it set up before, so I don't think that's it.

[Poppa_Meth]

So do I, but what this tool does is check your drives to see if the policies for each drive is set correctly and repairs it if not. Autoplay is not neccessary but disc detection is to put info from the disc when inserted.

[Xylob the Destroyer]

i fingered it out....
i got bored and decided to try installing Adaptec's 'latest' ASPI again
worked like a charm!!
i don't know why this didn't solve the problem the last 3 times i tried it.....

[yoda313]

i fingered it out....
i got bored and decided to try installing Adaptec's 'latest' ASPI again
worked like a charm!!
i don't know why this didn't solve the problem the last 3 times i tried it.....

Hello,

It's called a "computer"

They never do what they should the first time do they???

Glad you got it to work

Kevin

[Xylob the Destroyer]

ja!
see me post in the "Like - Dislike" thread in OT...
*mumble grumble, stupid damn computers*

[Poppa_Meth]

I have weird problems with APSI too sometimes. Like recently I killed my layer and reinstalled ForceASPI. Took me 3 times to get it to take. I'd run the installer, reboot and run ASPI check to find I had no layer installed. Then suddenly it was there just fine.