mtu not reconizing my plexwriter drive

[shanold1]

When I ckick on the micro icon it loads but does not reconize the cd rom drives. I do not know why this happens I have used it literrly hundres of times. I tried restarting my coumputer and it still did not reconize the drive when I check the cd rom properties it says the device is working properly. I've had this problem before and had to use the system restore to an earlier time but I don't want to have to keep doing that.
Need help in Albany.
Steve

[jaddams]

Steve,

Which CDROM do you have? Brand and model number if you please? Which MTU software?

Sincerely,

Jon

[admin]

Also, it sounds like you have been running Microstudio, now it won't run. This strongly implies you have loaded some other software, like NERO, that has replaced your ASPI drivers that allow Microstudio to detect and talk to your CDR drives.

Have you installed NERO or any other software at all since you last ran Microstudio?

[shanold1]

I have a Plextor cd-r PX-W4012A 1.00 and I am running micro ver 2.506 on windows home XP. No Nero. I used restore and it reconized my drivers again but I don't know why I have to use restore.
Steve in Albany

[mlepine]

shanold1,

Don't try to understand Windows. It can be very strange when it wants too.

I've seen a time where my sound went Mute & I did nothing, no check anywhere on my levels but what I did was check my Master Volume & then remove it and Bingo! Sound came back.

Microsoft is not a perfect world... thrust me!

[jaddams]

Shanold1,

Happy you are running again.

As Mlepine says, sometimes Windows can act in strange ways.

No long ago, Chairman Gates himself, got the blue screen of death while making a very important presentation at a Las Vegas Exhibition!

Jon

[George]

Shanold1,

Keep in mind also, that if a system restore corrects the situation there is every reason to believe something is changing your settings, and this is not an MTU software issue but a system issue.

I've been told by a very reliable pc tech that if a situation like this persists, get rid of any unnecessary programs in the start up menu, do a scan disc, do a disc clean up to get rid of temp files, unwanted files, etc., and when everything is as it should be, that is the time to do a disc defrag, to lock in the settings. Some may take issue with that, but it sure can't harm anything.

Yeah Jon, I remember that. He(Chairman Gates) was introducing either ME or 2000 and the system crashed during the presentation and could not recover simply by re-booting.

George