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Hello all. I hope I'm posting this in the correct place.
I have recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 8 online with some mixed emotions.
Apart from the backup disc not working at all I have other problems. The main one being that it won't play dvds - in fact it won't even recognise that a dvd is in the drive.
Having read much about the decision by Microsoft to withdraw support for dvd playback I have now installed both Windows Media Centre (via the free download/product key) and VLC player. However neither of these programmes will play nor recognise a dvd in the drive.
Windows Media Centre reports
"WMC cannot detect a video dvd in the DVD-Rom drive. Insert a video DVD into the drive"
I have tried many dvds, all of which have been played by this system when Vista was the running OS.
The dvd drive is recognised in Computer as "BD-RE Drive (G" and this moniker does not change when a dvd is inserted. Autoplay options never appear.
When a cd is inserted to the drive the name of the dvd drive remains the same but "audio cd" appears after and the cd plays fine.
In device manager the dvd drive appears as a MATSHITA BD-MLT UJ-220S ATA device
I'm wondering if somehow the drive now "thinks" it's just a cd drive? Is that possible?
I have uninstalled the drive and rebooted to re-install it with no effect on this problem.
Any help or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks.
EDIT
oops I forgot to mention I've also tried the registry edit
"reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0×00000001"
which doesn't appear to have done anything.
I have recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 8 online with some mixed emotions.
Apart from the backup disc not working at all I have other problems. The main one being that it won't play dvds - in fact it won't even recognise that a dvd is in the drive.
Having read much about the decision by Microsoft to withdraw support for dvd playback I have now installed both Windows Media Centre (via the free download/product key) and VLC player. However neither of these programmes will play nor recognise a dvd in the drive.
Windows Media Centre reports
"WMC cannot detect a video dvd in the DVD-Rom drive. Insert a video DVD into the drive"
I have tried many dvds, all of which have been played by this system when Vista was the running OS.
The dvd drive is recognised in Computer as "BD-RE Drive (G" and this moniker does not change when a dvd is inserted. Autoplay options never appear.
When a cd is inserted to the drive the name of the dvd drive remains the same but "audio cd" appears after and the cd plays fine.
In device manager the dvd drive appears as a MATSHITA BD-MLT UJ-220S ATA device
I'm wondering if somehow the drive now "thinks" it's just a cd drive? Is that possible?
I have uninstalled the drive and rebooted to re-install it with no effect on this problem.
Any help or suggestions would be welcome. Thanks.
EDIT
oops I forgot to mention I've also tried the registry edit
"reg.exe add "HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\atapi\Controller0" /f /v EnumDevice1 /t REG_DWORD /d 0×00000001"
which doesn't appear to have done anything.
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- OS X / Windows 8.1 Pro / Ubuntu 13.10
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- 15" MacBook Pro retina 10,1
- CPU
- 2.3GHz
- Memory
- 8GB 1600MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD400 / Nvidia GT650M
- Screen Resolution
- 2880 x 1800
- Hard Drives
- 256GB SSD