Windows problem?

[SgtM]

So, I've been having this smallish issue for a little bit. It's really more annoying than anything else. Almost everything I've found with google searches points me to troublesome software that I don't have installed. So, here's what's happening. If I put a CD or DVD in my drive, the drive volume never updates, even if I refresh in explorer. The only thing that seems to fix it is a reboot, then it displays the correct volume. Anything with an autorun.inf will not autorun. I checked the autoplay properties, and all the CD drives (2 physical, 1 virtual via daemon tools) and everything is set to prompt me for an action. Even if the wrong drive volume is displayed, if I browse the drive, then I can see the files and launch setup apps or whatever is contained on the actual disk. Anyone else ever have this problem and know of a fix? Thanks.

[slytherock]

I had this problem once. Actually, if it's what I think, it's easy to solve. Do you have 2 drive on that IDE? If yes, Switch your Master/slave drive.

[SgtM]

Really? It's that simple? See, I was looking something more complex. I'll try that later. Thanks Sly.

[nil8]

I've had a problem similar with a thumb drive, but never a cdrom.
The way I found the technical info is I went into the error logs under administrative tools in control panel, took the error log and googled it.
You might try that.

[slytherock]

So, how it turned out?

[SgtM]

sly - didn't work
nil8 - nothing in event logs

I'll just live with it until my next format. Thanks for the tips though. +rep to both of you.

[SSGM4DCOW]

sounds like its reformatting time to me

[crazzyyredneck]

Should be able to do a basic windows repair. maybe windows Registry files were corrupted? Also could be the drive going bad or a bad IDE cable. have you tried switching out the IDE cable?

[SgtM]

meh.. been busy working on the mod. I'll probably reformat soon though.

[moon111]

TweakUI lets you disable AutoRun, maybe you should try to see if it'll turn it back on?

[Drum Thumper]

Have you installed any burning programs lately? They might be causing your drives to not refresh.

[SgtM]

Tried tweak ui, no problems with Nero.. uninstalled and reinstalled to be sure. No big deal, I'm just going to wait until my next format.

[Drum Thumper]

Let me do some digging--I ran into the same problem when I tried to install the Burning Crusade expansion for Warcraft.

After starting a clean install, I ran across a whole bunch of stuff that I didn't try.

Sounds like you've got most of these points covered (registry mostly) but I'll look nontheless.

Edit: No luck searching the tech forums over @ warcrack. If I can remember where I put my notes, I'll post em for ya.

[Drum Thumper]

Rick, I didn't get a chance to read this all the way thru (as I gotta go to work) but it might be of some use to you:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1119555&page=1

[SgtM]

Hey Drum.. the answer was contained in that thread you posted. Here's the fix:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C680A7B6-E8FA-45C4-A171-1B389CFACDAD&displaylang=en

Thanks bro!
(gotta spread some rep around before I can give it to you again)

[Drum Thumper]

Cool, glad to hear you got your problem fixed.