Win XP - How to reset the DVD/CD burner?

[coody]

My laptop DVD/CD burner may have setting or configuration problems because both of the internal and external burners are unable to burn the DVD though the message displayed burn success. I did not have such a problem before. Now after completion of the burning, I could not see any contents from My Computer. The DVD player software also displayed no disc in the selected drive when I tried to play the copied DVD disc. However, there is no problem to play the original DVD movie. Since both of the internal and external burns have the same burning problem at the same time, I do not think it is due to the burner defective. Do you know how to reset the DVD/CD burner/device without reinstallation of the Windows XP?

[redwudz]

You can reset the burner this way:

(I would uninstall the channels)

Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers.

From there, right click on one of the channels and choose 'Properties>Advanced Settings'. All drives should be DMA mode. The 'Current Transfer Mode' for Hard drives is usually DMA 4-6 and DVD burners DMA 2-4, DVD ROMs usually DMA 2. If you see any in PIO mode, that can slow things down.

Changing them back may be easy or complicated. First see if you can change them in that window. If not, I usually uninstall the channel the drive is on and let the OS reinstall it. This will usually take a reboot. This will not damage any files on the computer.

If that makes no improvement, you have other problems. I suspect this is the case.