Hey, I have had one DVD reader (SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621) for about a year now, and it has been working flawlessly. Also, I recently (3 months ago or so) bought a DVD-RW burner (SONY DVD RW DRU-720A) and it has also been giving me stellar results.
Last night, I turned on my computer to burn a CD for my friend, and it wouldn't recognize the blank CD-R in the drive, so I tried another one, and it did the same thing. I looked in Windows Explorer under "My Computer", and my 2 HDDS are there as well as "Shared Documents", "Christopher's Documents", and 3 1/2 floppy), but nothing else, no dvd drives, nothing. I tried opening up my case and unplugging the connectors and plugging them back in, but that didn't help. Eventually I worked my way to the "Add Hardware" in Control Panel, and got this screen:
http://img200.echo.cx/img200/6132/dvderror6ud.jpg
Yep, those are my two drives there on the top, but how do I get the exclamation mark off the icon, and make it work again? I tried pretty much everything I could, like clicking the "Next" button and going through those steps, but it didn't help. Also, seeing that neither of the drives recognize CDs, trying the install disks doesn't yeild any gain
What are your guys' suggestions? I'd like to say a big thank you to anyone who does help or finds a cure for my woes
