Hey,

I recently chucked a Pioneer DVR-106D into my PC and I'm having a few problems with it. First, it can read music/data CDs and DVD movies, however it cannot read data DVDs (the one I am testing was burnt and works on another PC), or CDs which I attempted to burn on the drive (which are said to be blank on another PC).

By looking at the drive's properties, windows lists it as "Type: CD Drive". I downloaded the latest firmware update (1.08) from the Pioneer website, yet it is still using the windows generic driver (and the "Standard CD Drive" driver at that).

Can anyone help me?

Cheers.

Hi, give this a shot.

• Go to start > run and type in devmgmt.msc.
• Expand the DVD/CD-ROM drives tree.
• Double click on the drive.
• Click on the driver tab.
• Click on Update Driver.
• Click install from a list or specific location and click on Next.
• Check the include this location in the search box and select where the driver you downloaded is.
• Click Next.

Hope this helps,
Adam

If that still doesnt work, you might like to try the MS solution for broken drives here. It probably more of a last resort as its registry editting but fixed my dad's PC when it wouldnt read a thing

You can no longer access the CD drive or the DVD drive, or you receive an error message after you remove a CD recording program or a DVD recording program in Windows XP: "error code 31"