Drivers for CD/DVD burners

Proshooter

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Can anyone recommend a good external DVD burner that will work okay with Vista x64? My Dell stopped recognizing it's internal (HT-DT-ST GWA4164B) after about 2 weeks?! and my external Sony isn't recognized either (DRX-710UL). When I contacted Dell & Sony both said thier equipment wasn't designed for Vista x64. So right now I've got no CD/DVD reader/burner at all. Any suggestions are apprciated.

Proshooter
Dell670 Dual Xeon 3.4
6GB RAM 1.3TB HD
Vista Ultimate x64
 

My Computer

Solution Found

The drivers for the CD/DVD burners were corrupted by possible one of the burning and/or video editing programs I installed. Attempts to uninstall both the drivers and software failed. The solution was to make an edit in the registry. After being directed to the correct section I was mistakenly trying to delete the whole section, which the OS would not allow. I then learned that I only needed to delete a single line (of possibly 2) to make the correction. In RegEdit.exe take this path; My Computer; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; SYSTEM; Control; Class; {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}. Confirm that right pane contains several lines including referrences to CD/DVD Drive. Click on UpperFilters line, right click delete. Click on LowerFilters line, right click delete (both lines may not exist, delete only one if only one is displayed). Close RegEdit & reboot. This corrected the problem on my system and all optical drives were displayed in Device Manager as working properly.

Proshooter
Dell670 E7525 Dual-Xeon3.4 Vista Ultimate x64
4GbRAM 256Radeon1300x Dual ViewsonicVP201b
Maxtor300GB 7200 Maxtor250GBx4 1TB RAID
RocketRaid1640 CreativeSBAudigy2
DellLG HL-DT-ST GWA4164B ATA CD/DVD
Photoshop/Premiere Editing Workstation
 

My Computer

I reinstalled Vista and the CD/DVD drivers were OK after that.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    qx6700
    Motherboard
    intel badaxe2
    Memory
    6 Gig Corsair ddr2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia 9600GT 512
    Sound Card
    OB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    BenQ24 Princeton19
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200 1280X1024
    Hard Drives
    8 X 500 Gig 3X 1TB RAID 0 and 2X 500 GB
    PSU
    Rosewill 950
    Case
    Thermaltake
    Cooling
    Chilltec
    Keyboard
    MS Natural Ergonomic 6000
    Mouse
    Kensington Expert
    Internet Speed
    DSL
OK so it was OK for few hours, then it happened again. No more CD/DVD drives showing in the operating system. I restarted in the safe mode and uninstalled them and they never reappeared. Now I will try physically detaching them and reattaching them.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    qx6700
    Motherboard
    intel badaxe2
    Memory
    6 Gig Corsair ddr2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia 9600GT 512
    Sound Card
    OB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    BenQ24 Princeton19
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200 1280X1024
    Hard Drives
    8 X 500 Gig 3X 1TB RAID 0 and 2X 500 GB
    PSU
    Rosewill 950
    Case
    Thermaltake
    Cooling
    Chilltec
    Keyboard
    MS Natural Ergonomic 6000
    Mouse
    Kensington Expert
    Internet Speed
    DSL
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