I'm having problems with my DVD in one of my PC's, i have a Dell sx270, it has a DVD burner in it but its only displaying it as a CD drive, i've tried updating the drivers but it says the best driver is being used, i've installed "driver genius" but again it says there is no update for this device. I've removed the drive just to check it is a DVD drive and it's printed on it.

I only noticed because i tried to load a game earlier but it said no disc in drive, its ok with music cd's and picture cd's.

Any ideas?

try it in a different pc to check it's ok

try it in a different pc to check it's ok

 

I don't have another dell pc, its a small form desktop pc but its a laptop drive if you know what i mean.

it doesnt have to be a dell pc, any pc will do. one of my plextor drives did this shortly before it decided to die on me

I'm pretty sure it was working before, my sisters laptop hard drive went tits up so i took the hd out this pc and put it in her laptop, this is a new hard drive but i logged into dell using the service tag and downloaded all the drivers, when i had no joy with that i installed Driver Genius but it says i have the best drivers. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing. The thing is there is no maufacturer on these drives they just say dell, yet dell lists loads of manufacturers for the drivers.

it doesnt have to be a dell pc, any pc will do. one of my plextor drives did this shortly before it decided to die on me

 

Oh i get what you mean, i'll try connecting it to my other desktop using the ribbon connector.:bow:

if that doesn't work try flashing the firmware

if that doesn't work try flashing the firmware

 

I flashed the firmware but its just the same, i'll try the drive in another pc tomorrow. I also tried installing Nero to see if that would recognise the drive but no joy.

Ive had this before and it turnt out to be a bad driver. Also another time i had it was a problem with the operating system, i just reinstalled the OS and it worked fine after, but about 5 weeks later the drive decided to overspin, it blew the cd into about 40000 bits and it totaled the drive!