Problem reading CD-R in Pioneer DVR-106

[bunkaroo]

Sorry if this has been addressed before-I couldn't find any hits with the search function.

I have a Pioneer DVR-106 installed on a Dell Dimension 8100 running WinXP Home. The drive is working fine regarding burning DVD's.

However, I can't read burned CD-R's in the drive. I can read burned DVD-R and DVD+R, I can read CD-RW, and I can read normal CD-ROM, but just not CD-R. It does not appear to be a disc issue, as these discs are easily read on various other PC's. This includes CD-R's burnt on other PC's as well as mine, using Nero, Roxio, and other programs. The drive currently has firmware 1.07. It shipped with 1.05. I upgraded the firmware during the course of this troubleshooting, so the problem existed prior to the upgrade.

When I insert a CD-R, I am able to explore the drive-it just doesn't show any contents or a disc label for that matter. So it seems to at least recognize a disc is present. I'm thinking this is possibly a WinXP issue, but I've not been able to find anything while rummaging through the OS.

Any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated!

Andrew

EDIT-Just wanted to add, this PC used to have Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 installed, but I uninstalled before installing the Pioneer drive and Nero software that came with it.

 

[cfrantzol]

Did you read Woody's thread 2 positions over yours? Seems to solve a variety of symptoms like yours. There is nothing to loose anyway. Bye.

 

[bunkaroo]

Did you read Woody's thread 2 positions over yours? Seems to solve a variety of symptoms like yours. There is nothing to loose anyway. Bye.

Thanks for pointing that out. Unfortunately that did not solve my problem. I tried rmeoving drive and letting it reinstall, but that did not help. Also, I checked the Recording tab under the drive properties and the Enable CD recording box was already checked. I unchecked and rechecked, still no luck.

Also started imapi service manually-did not help either.

 

[Miros]

I have the same problem

Hi bunkaroo,

That's funny because since I used a CD Cleaner Disk, I have the same problem but with CD'RW disks... My computer can't read any CD-RW disks...
Did you find a solution to your problem ?
I'm using XP Pro SP1

Miros

 

[bunkaroo]

Hi bunkaroo,

That's funny because since I used a CD Cleaner Disk, I have the same problem but with CD'RW disks... My computer can't read any CD-RW disks...
Did you find a solution to your problem ?
I'm using XP Pro SP1

Miros

Yes I finally found a fix on the Microsfot website. The fix was for Win2000, but worked for my XP Home version-here's the link"

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q270/0/08.ASP&NoWebContent=1&NoWebContent=1

In short, it had to do with filter values Roxio installed in the registry.

Hope this helps...