Is there such a thing as a CD/DVD Drive that is not compatible with certain MS OS's?

midnilux · Sep 29, 2004, 12:41 PM

Keep in mind this is all on a laptop system.

I had Windows XP on my laptop, a bunch of critical files got deleted so it ran like it was about to crash every instance, so I installed win2k since I couldnt find my winxp cd

So I install win2k All of a sudden my CD/DVD Drive slows down to a crawl, still works, just slow as hell, it's not even fast enough to play mp3s off a CD, so I thought the CD Drive was busted, but then I realized that 2-3 hours prior to installing Win2k I had just burned a CD with all my mp3s, drivers, and other crap. So I decided to test if it would atleats burn something, and behold, it burns... but very slowly, the cd writing speed is 48X, I put it on 24x to go easy on it, 5 minutes had passed and it was like on 25% (even on my old 8x CD-RW max time it takes to burn a full CD is 11 minutes).

So I thought to myself... the drive still works, it burns but it just takes forever, and it reads but its just slow, maybe it's not compatible with win2k in some way? I'ts a laptop drive so it's not your typical drive and perhaps the generic windows 2000 CD drivers dont work for it, while the WinXP ones do.

And on a side note, when I tried to update the firmware for the drive it said "drive not detected" so the firmware program cant even detect the drive it was written for, which is another oddity, I mean the thing can be broken, but it should atleast detect it.

It's all awfully fishy and just seems like a compatability problem, the laptop was probably only optimized for Windows XP.

So I'm probably gonna instal winxp again when I find the damn cd just to test if its my drive that wont work with win2k or if its just busted.

Matth · Sep 29, 2004, 03:22 PM

I wonder if it's the IDE drivers for the chipset that are the problem?
Are you getting DMA mode?

A few older drives were incompatible with 2K/XP or needed a firmware update - but both 2K and XP have a similar Win-NT root, instead of the Win95 root of 98/ME

midnilux · Sep 29, 2004, 09:54 PM

Well since I have a 64 bit CPU, it turns out my BIOS was in 64 bit mode only, somehow... thats why I've been having all kinds of crazy problems with everything lately.

I set it back to 32 bit and the cd drive and everything else works fine.

Sep 29, 2004, 12:41 PM	#1
midnilux DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 66 Rep Power: 0	Is there such a thing as a CD/DVD Drive that is not compatible with certain MS OS's? Keep in mind this is all on a laptop system. I had Windows XP on my laptop, a bunch of critical files got deleted so it ran like it was about to crash every instance, so I installed win2k since I couldnt find my winxp cd So I install win2k All of a sudden my CD/DVD Drive slows down to a crawl, still works, just slow as hell, it's not even fast enough to play mp3s off a CD, so I thought the CD Drive was busted, but then I realized that 2-3 hours prior to installing Win2k I had just burned a CD with all my mp3s, drivers, and other crap. So I decided to test if it would atleats burn something, and behold, it burns... but very slowly, the cd writing speed is 48X, I put it on 24x to go easy on it, 5 minutes had passed and it was like on 25% (even on my old 8x CD-RW max time it takes to burn a full CD is 11 minutes). So I thought to myself... the drive still works, it burns but it just takes forever, and it reads but its just slow, maybe it's not compatible with win2k in some way? I'ts a laptop drive so it's not your typical drive and perhaps the generic windows 2000 CD drivers dont work for it, while the WinXP ones do. And on a side note, when I tried to update the firmware for the drive it said "drive not detected" so the firmware program cant even detect the drive it was written for, which is another oddity, I mean the thing can be broken, but it should atleast detect it. It's all awfully fishy and just seems like a compatability problem, the laptop was probably only optimized for Windows XP. So I'm probably gonna instal winxp again when I find the damn cd just to test if its my drive that wont work with win2k or if its just busted.

Sep 29, 2004, 03:22 PM	#2
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,426 Rep Power: 93 System Specs	I wonder if it's the IDE drivers for the chipset that are the problem? Are you getting DMA mode? A few older drives were incompatible with 2K/XP or needed a firmware update - but both 2K and XP have a similar Win-NT root, instead of the Win95 root of 98/ME

Sep 29, 2004, 09:54 PM	Thread Starter #3
midnilux DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 66 Rep Power: 0	Well since I have a 64 bit CPU, it turns out my BIOS was in 64 bit mode only, somehow... thats why I've been having all kinds of crazy problems with everything lately. I set it back to 32 bit and the cd drive and everything else works fine.