Unresponsive DVD drive

I am using drive letter access for my DVD drive.

Sometimes when I am reading the DVD, the computer hangs and I get 
'unresponsive DVD drive' in the windows task manager.

Usually I cannot 'end task' and have to actually press the power button for 
several second to turn off the computer.

Any suggestions of where to look for an answer to this problem.

BTW the 'evnetvwr' does not show any 'problems'. 

Indigo wrote:
> 
> "anon" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message 
> news:fu0gep$nv$1@news.spamcop.net...
>> I am using drive letter access for my DVD drive.
>>
>> Sometimes when I am reading the DVD, the computer hangs and I get 
>> 'unresponsive DVD drive' in the windows task manager.
>>
>> Usually I cannot 'end task' and have to actually press the power 
>> button for several second to turn off the computer.
>>
>> Any suggestions of where to look for an answer to this problem.
>>
>> BTW the 'evnetvwr' does not show any 'problems'.
> 
> Sounds like you have something majorily wrong with your reg file or 
> something else is corrupted....first you're reporting BSOD problems, now 
> this? Having the puter lock up hard is a symptom of some serious 
> issues.....do you have any process explorer apps installed to see what's 
> going on?

Probably not the registry file.  How often does it happen?  1 time of 
10?  1 of 100?  1 of 2?

Is it only one specific DVD?  Can you read CD-R's and the like and do 
the same thing?

Can you shut down the computer via the Start button versus holding the 
power button?  (normal versus abornmal)

Have you checked the integrity of your hard disks recently?

"anon" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message 
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>I am using drive letter access for my DVD drive.
>
> Sometimes when I am reading the DVD, the computer hangs and I get 
> 'unresponsive DVD drive' in the windows task manager.
>
> Usually I cannot 'end task' and have to actually press the power button 
> for several second to turn off the computer.
>
> Any suggestions of where to look for an answer to this problem.
>
> BTW the 'evnetvwr' does not show any 'problems'.

Sounds like you have something majorily wrong with your reg file or 
something else is corrupted....first you're reporting BSOD problems, now 
this? Having the puter lock up hard is a symptom of some serious 
issues.....do you have any process explorer apps installed to see what's 
going on? 

> Indigo wrote:
>>
>> "anon" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>> news:fu0gep$nv$1@news.spamcop.net...
>>> I am using drive letter access for my DVD drive.
>>>
>>> Sometimes when I am reading the DVD, the computer hangs and I get
>>> 'unresponsive DVD drive' in the windows task manager.
>>>
>>> Usually I cannot 'end task' and have to actually press the power
>>> button for several second to turn off the computer.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions of where to look for an answer to this problem.
>>>
>>> BTW the 'evnetvwr' does not show any 'problems'.
>>
>> Sounds like you have something majorily wrong with your reg file or
>> something else is corrupted....first you're reporting BSOD problems,
>> now this? Having the puter lock up hard is a symptom of some serious
>> issues.....do you have any process explorer apps installed to see
>> what's going on?
>
> Probably not the registry file.  How often does it happen?  1 time of
> 10?  1 of 100?  1 of 2?
>
> Is it only one specific DVD?  Can you read CD-R's and the like and do
> the same thing?
>
> Can you shut down the computer via the Start button versus holding the
> power button?  (normal versus abornmal)
>
> Have you checked the integrity of your hard disks recently?
>
>
> AndrewB

Agreed, re the registry thing.  Sounds like a CD/DVD drive problem, 
maybe dirty, failing or failed.  Detailed asnwers to the above questions 
will help diagnose it a lot.

hth
-- 
Regards,

Twayne

Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacement
www.openoffice.org

"Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message 
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>> Indigo wrote:
>>>
>>> "anon" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>>> news:fu0gep$nv$1@news.spamcop.net...
>>>> I am using drive letter access for my DVD drive.
>>>>
>>>> Sometimes when I am reading the DVD, the computer hangs and I
get
>>>> 'unresponsive DVD drive' in the windows task manager.
>>>>
>>>> Usually I cannot 'end task' and have to actually press the
power
>>>> button for several second to turn off the computer.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions of where to look for an answer to this
problem.
>>>>
>>>> BTW the 'evnetvwr' does not show any 'problems'.
>>>
>>> Sounds like you have something majorily wrong with your reg file
or
>>> something else is corrupted....first you're reporting BSOD
problems,
>>> now this? Having the puter lock up hard is a symptom of some
serious
>>> issues.....do you have any process explorer apps installed to see
>>> what's going on?
>>
>> Probably not the registry file.  How often does it happen?  1 time of
>> 10?  1 of 100?  1 of 2?
>>
>> Is it only one specific DVD?  Can you read CD-R's and the like and do
>> the same thing?
>>
>> Can you shut down the computer via the Start button versus holding the
>> power button?  (normal versus abornmal)
>>
>> Have you checked the integrity of your hard disks recently?
>>
>>
>> AndrewB
>
> Agreed, re the registry thing.  Sounds like a CD/DVD drive problem, maybe 
> dirty, failing or failed.  Detailed asnwers to the above questions will 
> help diagnose it a lot.
>
> hth
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Twayne
>
> Open Office isn't just for wimps anymore;
> OOo is a GREAT MS Office replacement
> www.openoffice.org
>
>
>

It started with one particular DVD.

I found that part of it was that the DLA was not compatible - so made disk 
compatible.

This helped but when I was copying the disk it hung on one particular 
folder.

As last resort, cleaned drive - this allowed that folder to be read.

ODD.

Maybe drive was dirty (had tried cleaning the DISC - no change.