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Vista and SATA DVD drives??

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jdf_warrior

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I had a previous installation of Vista and I never recognized this problem, but I have just recently swapped from XP x64 back to 64bit Vista Business. I just realized though, neither of my dvd drives show up in My Computer. I know there have been issues with people trying to get Vista to install from a SATA drive, but the installation worked perfectly.

In Device Manager, they show up, but say that there may be a problem with the device driver. I uninstalled them Device Manager and did a "scan for new hardware" and it shows the drive again, but still shows that there is a driver error.

Is this a common issue? Should I need some form of different CDROM driver for Vista? Drives are listed in Device Manager as: ASUS DRW-1814BLT SCSI CdRom Device.

Any ideas?
 
Do you happen to have Easy Media Creator 10, or QuickTime / iTunes installed? You might want to check in the registry (Type regedit in the Start Search field, and click on regedit.exe under Programs), under the following key...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | SYSTEM | CurrentControlSet | Control | Class | {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

Highlight this key, and if either the UpperFilters or LowerFilters values are present in the RH pane, delete them (right click each value name, and select Delete) and reboot.
 
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