cdrw broken after nero instal

blodeblode
edited October 2004 in Hardware
I have a Yamaha F1 CDRW on an Abit NF7-S motherboard attached to ide1 with a Sony DVDrom. I have used these without problem for quite a while but recently had a major HDD failure which necessitated reinstalling XP + SP2.

I did this without too many problems (apart from the utter waste of time :-( ).

Anyway, I after I reinstalled the latest version of Nero6 I have been having trouble burning cds. I had this problem before - the CD and dvd drivers in Device Manager have been changed to 'Yamaha CRW-F1E SCSI CDROM device' (the sony dvd rom entry is similar) and whenever I try to burn something the process starts then aborts. When I try to drag and drop stuff the system hangs.

I've tried removing the Device Manager entries but they just get reinstalled as SCSI. How can I get this back to normal (and why has Nero f*cked my system?). Last time it happened, I *think* I just uninstalled then let XP reinstall but it does not work this time.

Mike

Comments

  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2004
    Nero will often report your optical drives as a scsi device even though they aren't, so that in itself isn't weird. However (and I'd have to double check to be sure) that it only reports them as scsi in Nero and if you go into System>Devices>CD-Roms they'll still report as normal drives. First try a simple un-install to see if it fixes the problem reboot and see if your drives are back to normal.

    Personally I've never had a problem with Nero but that doesn't mean anything. When you say drag and drop hangs the system is that just from within nero or anytime you want to drag something from a drive?
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2004
    have you uninstalled nero and see if it solved the issue?
  • blodeblode
    edited October 2004
    kryyst wrote:
    Nero will often report your optical drives as a scsi device even though they aren't, so that in itself isn't weird. However (and I'd have to double check to be sure) that it only reports them as scsi in Nero and if you go into System>Devices>CD-Roms they'll still report as normal drives. First try a simple un-install to see if it fixes the problem reboot and see if your drives are back to normal.

    Personally I've never had a problem with Nero but that doesn't mean anything. When you say drag and drop hangs the system is that just from within nero or anytime you want to drag something from a drive?

    I did a search (sorry I didn't do this first!): Back on 24 May, I posted the following thread "CD-RW and DVD-ROM detected as SCSI":

    Madmat came up with the solution:

    "Ok then try uninstalling the NF7-S IDE driver software (ForceWare?) and reinstalling either a later version or earlier version because my NF-2 Shuttle cube had a similar problem and the new drivers cured it (and the fact that I didn't remove the old ones before I installed another set helped to complicate matters as well) so I had to uninstall the new ones, re-install the old ones, uninstall the old ones and install the newest ones from Shuttle and my drives all read as what they were, IDE."

    Thanks again, Madmat!!!!

    Sorry to take up the group's time but maybe it'll help somebody else one day!

    :)

    Mike
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