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    Pls Help. Optical Drive reads DVDs, but not the Win7 upgrade.

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by watervitamin, May 8, 2010.

  1. watervitamin

    watervitamin Newbie

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    Hi, I have a Sony VGN-AR38G.
    I have upgraded the HDD and RAM 2 months ago after a hardisk failure.

    Current specs as follows:
    Intel Core2 CPU [email protected]
    Nvidia GeForce Go 7600 GT
    2x2G RAM
    2x320G HDD

    Optical Drive: Mata BD-MLT UJ-210S ATA Device
    In device manager it says the device is working properly.
    Current driver version is 6.0.6001.18000, which should be the latest (Ver1.06)

    The laptop was purchased in June 2007. Broke Dec 2009 due to hardisk failure. Then I upgraded some hardwares (HDD & RAM), reinstalled Vista Home Premium (Burnt disk) then upgraded to Win7 (Retail disk).

    Then 2 weeks ago, I left it on battery only, thought it would go into hybernation when the battery drains, however I had a nasty system loss, basically all I had was the Vaio logo and BIOS info, not even F8. So had to reinstall the system. Did pretty much the same thing as before, except I did the firmware upgrade of the optical drive, which I don't recall doing the last time. Then, I'm stuck with the Win7 upgrade.

    The DVD rom won't read it, in 'my computer', on the optical drive, it does not display the title of the disk, and clicking 'explore' or 'open' does nothing.

    I have no idea what is causing this. And I cannot roll back driver.
    Could it be something to do with DVD-R or +R?
    I am quite ignorant on optical drives :eek:

    Please please please help. :confused:
     
    watervitamin, May 8, 2010
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Check the disc in another PC to make sure the disc is still intact.
     
    namaiki, May 8, 2010
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  3. watervitamin

    watervitamin Newbie

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    Forgot to mention, checked the disc in another computer, was good there.
     
    watervitamin, May 8, 2010
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