DVD drive

[Guest Tree*Rat]

First I would like to thank those who helped so far in my problem in a

privous post.

 

Now onto the problem. I have a DVD drive that works in other machines

but not in this one! It plays DVD movies, but not DVD games, the drive

keeps saying the drive is empty? The games are Vista compatiable and

work in other machines also running Vista and XP. The drive has been

tried in other machines are works fine. The issue is only with DVD

games. CD games and music etc work fine too. So the issue is with DVD

games only. The DvD games have been tested on other machines with the

same drive and other drives and work fine.

 

I have found that a piece of software installed a while back, that has

since been removed, is the cause of the problems. I have come to the

conclusion that when I uninstalled the program it did not do so

correctly. The downside is I have no backup from before the software was

instaled. I only keep backups for 2 months, and the same with system

restore.

 

The idea I had was to unistall the drive, reboot, then it would re-

install drivers etc. But this did not cure the problem. When you

uninstall a device does the remove registry keys or not? as the problem,

i think, is a registery issue.

 

What registry keys do i need to remove? and will a reboot re-install

these back to when i installed vista (or close to it!)?

 

any help would be great as i need to get this drive working.