No Drive Detected

[Ken_H]

I'm using EMC 10 and it worked fine for several months. Now it won't detect my CD/DVD drives and I'm out of ideas. I uninstalled/reinstalled the program, updated the PX Engine and it still won't see my drives. I'm using Windows Vista and it and every other media program I have sees the drives just fine. I'm not sure what happened here but I'd appreciate some ideas here. EMC is or was a great suite but it's severely limited without usable drives. Thanks for your time.

[cdanteek]

I uninstalled/reinstalled updated the PX Engine

 

 

Ken, did you do it this way?

 

Click #5 in my signature and follow the directions.

 

Clean uninstall for Vista, click #12 in my signature.

 

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[Ken_H]

Thanks; I've done #5 a few times so I'll read and do #12. This will take some time and I'll post the results.

[cdanteek]

#5 is a new updated PX Engine. Made for versions 'Easy Media Creator 7.5 and higher', PX Engine 4.10.28a (updated 7.14.08).

 

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[paul12345]

Hi, I have the same problem that the dvd-rw drive can not be found by roxio 10. I tried no.5 but that didnt work.

 

Im using Vista home premium

 

Any help would be great

[cdanteek]

You followed these directions and rebooted?

 

Download: PX Engine 4.10.28a (updated 7.14.08)

 

 

To install the PX Engine update:

 

 

Download the latest version here to your desktop.

Unzip the file.

Double click the .exe installer and follow the on screen instructions.

 

Note: The PX Engine installer may require a reboot after installation.

 

If so and it didn't work open device manager and uninstall the controller the drive is on, reboot and try again.

 

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[Ken_H]

#5 is a new updated PX Engine. Made for versions 'Easy Media Creator 7.5 and higher', PX Engine 4.10.28a (updated 7.14.08).

 

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Sorry for the delay, the forum seemed to have been down yesterday morning. I didn't have any luck with this. My problem came when I was doing step 12 and trying to delete the first 2 directories mentioned. It wasn't the instructions, they were thorough and easy to follow. I was denied access for deletion by Vista even though I'm a administrator and changing file ownership and permissions did no good. So I did the next best thing, I renamed the directories. I reinstalled and still no drive detected. Oddly enough when I insert a dvd Roxio Cineplayer opens to play it. Again every other program and utility does see the drives. I'm beginning to think that this is a lost cause.

 

Thanks for the help.

[gi7omy]

That's Vista for you - hand-holding to the extreme (may as well have handcuffs)

 

Try setting up a second admin account and see if you can get at the files that way, also turn User Account Control off if possible