CD Drive available at boot, not in Vista

Information

We have a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop running Vista Home Basic.

The DVD burner is not recognized by Vista...it has a yellow mark in the
Device Manager and indicates Error 10.

It functions at boot, as I can insert a boot disk and read from the drive
with no problem.

We've removed the driver and rebooted, no change. I've gone into safe mode
and removed the DVD burner driver, and as much of the IDE/Sata controllers
as I could and reboot, no change.

I've swapped the drive itself with two others, and no change.

We've run the Dell diagnostics and these report everything is normal.

Short of reformatting and reinstalling an OS (the specific owner would like
XP), I'm out of options in troubleshooting. Any insight is appreciated,
thanks in advance.

Dan

Robert

Information wrote:
> We have a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop running Vista Home Basic.
>
> The DVD burner is not recognized by Vista...it has a yellow mark in the
> Device Manager and indicates Error 10.
>
> It functions at boot, as I can insert a boot disk and read from the drive
> with no problem.
>
> We've removed the driver and rebooted, no change. I've gone into safe mode
> and removed the DVD burner driver, and as much of the IDE/Sata controllers
> as I could and reboot, no change.
>
> I've swapped the drive itself with two others, and no change.
>
> We've run the Dell diagnostics and these report everything is normal.
>
> Short of reformatting and reinstalling an OS (the specific owner would like
> XP), I'm out of options in troubleshooting. Any insight is appreciated,
> thanks in advance.
>
> Dan
>
>
I had this go to the dell help pages and put in the model of CD Drive
and you should get a link telling you what registry entry to amend or
delete.

Worked for me

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Colton

Information,

If you are unsuccessful in your attempts, you can always go to the Dell
Live Support Chat, and have a technician help you with your issue. They will
probably ask you to download their assistance program (which is like
Teamviewer, or LogMeIn) and will give you on screen help in real time. Dell
has a lot of compatibility issues with their hardware. Being an owner of a
1521, I know how truly annoying it can be.

--

Colton, PHP/VB6/HTML/CSS/Javscript/IIS/Apache
OS: Vista Home Premium x86 SP1

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"Information" <cmc(removethis)@cablespeed.com> wrote in message
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> We have a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop running Vista Home Basic.
>
> The DVD burner is not recognized by Vista...it has a yellow mark in the
> Device Manager and indicates Error 10.
>
> It functions at boot, as I can insert a boot disk and read from the drive
> with no problem.
>
> We've removed the driver and rebooted, no change. I've gone into safe
> mode and removed the DVD burner driver, and as much of the IDE/Sata
> controllers as I could and reboot, no change.
>
> I've swapped the drive itself with two others, and no change.
>
> We've run the Dell diagnostics and these report everything is normal.
>
> Short of reformatting and reinstalling an OS (the specific owner would
> like XP), I'm out of options in troubleshooting. Any insight is
> appreciated, thanks in advance.
>
> Dan
>

Peter Foldes

See if the following fix will repair your DVD . Ignore all codes and just follow the
fix



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"Information" <cmc(removethis)@cablespeed.com> wrote in message
news:.gbl...
> We have a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop running Vista Home Basic.
>
> The DVD burner is not recognized by Vista...it has a yellow mark in the Device
> Manager and indicates Error 10.
>
> It functions at boot, as I can insert a boot disk and read from the drive with no
> problem.
>
> We've removed the driver and rebooted, no change. I've gone into safe mode and
> removed the DVD burner driver, and as much of the IDE/Sata controllers as I could
> and reboot, no change.
>
> I've swapped the drive itself with two others, and no change.
>
> We've run the Dell diagnostics and these report everything is normal.
>
> Short of reformatting and reinstalling an OS (the specific owner would like XP),
> I'm out of options in troubleshooting. Any insight is appreciated, thanks in
> advance.
>
> Dan
>