The problem now was that upon starting up my system I tried inserting every type of media disc I had on hand to test it out. None of the media I inserted in the new LG drive would "autoplay". The only media that would autoplay was audio cds, and dvd movies from blockbuster. Cdr's, Dvdr's, & Cdrw's would not autoplay at all, and by autoplay I mean prompting me with choices to use on an inserted disc. When I had any recordable media in, I went to "my computer" and clicked on the drive. All it would do is prompt me with a message saying "Drive ---- is inaccessable", even though the drive icon displayed the kind of recordable media that was in the drive. Hmmm... I tried to experiment so I opened up Nero and tried to burn a data cd, and it worked. I also tried to erase a cdrw and it worked as well. This all seemed wrong to me and I got very frustrated. So in conclusion I got upset and took the LG drive back to the store and had it exchanged with the same LG drive again.
Upon starting up my system with this one, it did THE SAME THING! So now I know that it is not the drive. It has to be the o/s or something. Today I tried another experiment... I right clicked on both of the matching LG drives in "my computer", and looked at there properties. Obviously the first LG drive I got before buying the matching one worked fine, so I compared the first LG drive properties with the newer one. While observing the newer matching LG drive properties, I found that every setting was the same as the first LG drive I bought months ago. Except for one thing! In the properties for the newer LG drive under the "Recording" tab, there is a box that says "Enable cd recording on this drive". This box was not check marked and enabled. The first LG drive I bought months ago had this box enabled. So I went on and enabled it on the matching drive. And voila, presto, it worked! My matching drive now autoplayed any recordable media, and prompted me to chose what I want to do with any disc I insert.
Oh, Ohh! Problem! After thinking I had stabbed the problem, I encountered a new one. I than placed all kinds of recordable media into the Lg drive that I bought months ago (that worked fine). And now this one did what the new matching one had done! Now this one does'nt want to autoplay recorable media, and has all the problems the newer matching one had. So I checked it's properties and went to the "Recording" tab. The box that says "Enable cd recording on this drive" was automatically unchecked. But how? Darn... So I enabled it again, and clicked "apply". I than right clicked the properties to see if it was still check marked, and it was'nt. It's almost like somehow it gets automatically unchecked when I enable it. What the heck is going on? I just want both of them to work properly. Now the new one works and the old one does'nt.
ARRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I'm so mad. Not to mention I have a bad temper! Well I don't know what to do. Can you not have two dvd writers in the same pc? Is it the o/s? Why is the "Enable cd recording on this drive" box automatically getting unchecked when I enable, and apply it? Why can't you have two drive properties with this box enabled? What the heck do I have to do to make both drives work properly together before I run to the gas station for some fuel, pour it all over my pc, and light a match?????? Please find it in you to help me! I am lost.
By the way... Yes both drive properties status say the "devices are working properly". And as for the jumpers on the back of both drives, one drive is set to master (end ribbon), and the other is set to slave (middle ribbon). They are both identical drives... This is the url where you can view the drive I have:
http://www.canadacom...d...&cid=CR.184
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