DVD drive will only read CDRs, not DVDs

Hi folks. Another problem with my DVD drive here which I didn't have with Windows 7. As the title says my DVD drive will only read CDRs and not DVDs. My DVD drive is an Atapi iHAS122 . Does anyone have any ideas what the problem is?

Regards
Martin

Could be that the DVD laser itself has gone bad.

pparks1 said:

Could be that the DVD laser itself has gone bad.

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Thanks for the reply. It isn't that though as a few minutes before I installed Windows 8 from DVD. I had other DVD issues in the consumer preview and went back to Win 7 and all was ok again. Seems there's some bugs

just encountered that as well and I will look into it. I am just confirming it isnt an isolated incident or dvd reader gone bad. Stay tuned

try this fix from MS
DVD drive not recognized in windows 8 - Microsoft Community

Now it reads DVDs, it still acting a bit weird but I will keep checking, Oct 26 around the corner, hopefully manufacturer have some drivers ready ...

I'm glad yours is working. I tried this last night and Command Prompt said it had 'completed successfully' so I rebooted but it didn't solve the problem. I'll try again tonight though.

I wonder what MS have done here? I thought the principle was that if things worked on Windows 7 they'd work on Windows 8 :/

Yeah agreed man, hopefully an update or driver is on its way.
Just for kicks, did you try other dvds you have laying around? my system have prob with one particular dvd rw that I know is brand new so there is some funkiness going on still.

HBHB said:

try this fix from MS
DVD drive not recognized in windows 8 - Microsoft Community

Now it reads DVDs, it still acting a bit weird but I will keep checking, Oct 26 around the corner, hopefully manufacturer have some drivers ready ...

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All of the optical drives I've used since Windows 95 used the Microsoft drivers.

I wonder whether Vivid did a clean install of Win8 or an upgrade from Win7. A buggered registry suggests the latter.

Well check this Bob, I have two lappies,two Asus different series and specs. Both got fresh win 8 install and both showed the same symptoms which is weird dvd readings. Both can read DVDs now, however it is not all fluid as it should. I am confident this will be resolved .

It's working now . I plugged the SATA lead into a different slot, restarted and that didn't work, but then I put it in the original slot and it's ok - strange but I'm happy. I've had DVD drive problems both times I've installed Windows 8 to this PC - both clean installs too

Good job Blue

Vivid Blue said:

It's working now . I plugged the SATA lead into a different slot, restarted and that didn't work, but then I put it in the original slot and it's ok - strange but I'm happy. I've had DVD drive problems both times I've installed Windows 8 to this PC - both clean installs too

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Weird.

I've only installed Win8 on a single desktop machine. Nothing like that happened. (Touch wood. Fingers crossed. Etc.)