DVD-RW drive will not read DVDs, but reads CDs

[chameleon35]

D:\ is not accessible
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."
I have a Toshiba Satellite P-15 S479 running XP Media Center edition

I've had my Toshiba Satellite P-15 S479 for over a year now, and have had no problems with my DVD-RW drive. Last Saturday, Feb 25, I successfully burned a DVD. In the interim period, I ran Norton System Works, and used Win Doctor, which fixed a few problems directly from the CD (I didn't load it onto my computer--just ran Windoctor directly from disk). I also dowloaded Sony's music program from connect. I also used InCD (another program) to successfully burn a data cd the other day).

Anyway, when I tried burning a dvd yesterday, the drive wouldn't read the dvd. I treid several other dvds that I have used before--none of them worked. They all worked on another computer and my dvd player when I tested them. However, my computer dvd drive has no problem reading Audio cd's and data cds. I uninstalled the Sony progma, and also used XP's system restore to restore my computer to the Thursday before I successfully burned the dvd. none of that worked. I now get the following message when trying to play a dvd (cds still read fine):
D:\ is not accessible
The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

Please help. Thanks.

 

[bugmenot1]

Well, so have I. Bought a brand new dvd bruner without any luck. It's a dvd drive until i put a cd or dvd in it. Then it's suddely cd drive for some reason

 

[cdogg]

If you're talking about what you see in Windows Explorer, then that's normal. In fact, both of my burners do the same thing in Windows, which is just showing what type of media is in the drive.

~cdogg
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[bugmenot1]

Okay, well I insert a burned dvd with some data files on it. It reads for some time then suddenly the DVD-RAM changes to CD DRIVE and it says that it's 0kb on the disc and 0kb freespace. It won't take dvd's, just ordinary cd's, although when I open the cd it won't display any files and say that the cd is blank although I know I have stuff burned on the cd's

 

[cdogg]

OK, you may want to start a new thread on that issue. Include your burner's make/model, what you've tried to fix it, and the cd-writing software version you have installed.

~cdogg
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[dglienna]

Try removing InCD. We never install it on W2K boxes, and I noticed some problems on XP boxes, that were solved when InCD was removed. Now, we don't bother to install it on XP, either.

-David
2006 Microsoft Valueable Professional (MVP)
2006 Dell Certified System Professional (CSP)