My new venture shop's computer started to act up. I purchased low-end CompaQ desktop featuring Windows Vista Home with DVDRW drive by TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H653L SCSI CdRom device (this description is from Windows directly).

I have allowed to install DVD authoring and copying program on this machine. The machine was running just finely and *ahem* duplicating DVD's for shop's purpose. The DVDs did not have copyright notice and it was for piercing tutorials (so FBI get off my back )

Anyway, few weeks ago my shop's desktop failed to copy using DVDFab. At first I thought it was Vista's way of filtering DVD duplication. This happened to me with Windows XP Professional edition after SP2. When I reverted back to SP1 it worked perfectly. But this wasn't the case this time. Has my drive done bad? Operating Roxio to make CD music and data disks it was also working perfectly. So what could have been the issue?

I have searched the internet and I came across many threads advising to modify Windows registry--this I was not willing to attempt at this point. I was leaning towards "hardware gone bad," you see. Searching for any error log I have found the following message:



Ah, this meant either my DMA was not turned on and my drive is stuck on PIO mode or the writer cannot write to a disk. I know it has worked before but why now? It's the same disk (Verbatim 100 count from Sam's club) and nothing has changed. Searching the internet all I found a solution to this situation was "reinstall the driver!"

Leaving registry edit and reinstalling as my last resort I did the following: accessing the DVD authoring program and lower the writing speed from MAX/Recommended to 4X. And look at that! The program is working perfectly and the re-authoring software is working like the first time.

So before you go through the somewhat dangerous path of editing your registry or painful hours of reinstalling your driver/OS try lowering or setting writing speed to 4X and work your speed up.

How typical of Windows Vista nothing ever seems to work under this menace>> my laptop cannot get stuff printed when it goes thru the main computer... i need to manually plug it directly in to print!!!

I hate vista...

You ,ay need to update the drivers so its compatible with the vista OS, I would suggest trying the CD ROM on another computer that can fit it and see if you get any problems with it. Of course usually it is a bad CD ROM drive as I have gone through two of them myself on my XP already. So what I suggest is to update drivers, try it out on another computer, if you can, and if it still don't work replace it.

UPDATE:

I came across this website, and I would suggest reading maineman, Jimbo, and signals posts about how to fix it, or rather where to look into since the CD ROM is different from yours. Of course it doesn't hurt to call compaq support about this error since they would have more information about this then anyone else does at the moment.

This post has been edited by Saint_Michael: Nov 16 2007, 04:39 PM

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Dvd Drive Fails To Write Under Windows Vista

It was vista, kept losing net connection, fixed that problem by going back to XP, and vista blows.
XP isn't allowing me to burn disks, doesn't recognize TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H653L as a writer, just a reader .DVD's play all is good on reading, writing doesn't work at all.
Any help on this would be great, I'm not real super smart, and just smart enough to know I don't know.

This is due to having the PCI drivers incorrectly installed.

To fix, go to Device Manager, Change driver on the IDE controller to the standard Microsoft driver (I bet its on jMicron or something) and remove the DVD drive from Device Manager.

Reboot and Windows will now see the DVD/ Writer

cd written in vista, not open in xp
Dvd Drive Fails To Write Under Windows Vista

My cd had written in windows vista by writer.
That cd is not opening in windows xp.

The message is that "file is corrupted or format is different..."