dvd drive and dvd burner problems

jimmymac

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Ok. heres something weird that I hope you guys can help me with.

Whats been happening on my computer, is if I change a CD or DVD in any of my 2 drives, when I go to 'My Computer' and look at the relevent drive, the drive is still labelled with the previous disk's title. And whats more, if I click it, it still displays it's contents. Clicking a file results in the drive saying 'insert disk'. So it's as if my drives no longer update yet when I put a disk in, the drives spin up and the light blinks ect...

I had this problem on my old computer and it was something that happened during use. Same as on this compy. All was fine and then this problem. One thing of note though is that I am pretty sure it started to happen when I installed Microsoft Train Simulator.

Usual web searching yields little info. The odd ask from one or two others but no remedies. I can get around it but it's a pain in the arse as 2 disk installs where I can't jiggle the refresh whilst the drive is open means I can't install anything.

Any suggestions?
 
if it happened on your other computer either the drivers are corrupt, its having a hardware conflict, or bad drives
 
bad drivers are my first thought for it to be honest, i cant imagine both drives failing at the same instance, as for hardware conflict, well they worked before and no new hardware has been added........

any other thoughts?
 
this has happened to me before... by a chance you running any virtual cd drives.. (daemon tools or poweriso..etc..).. but this has happened to me before in vista after i ejected the cd...)... it was fixed after a couple reboots...
 
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