Drives do not see blank disk (Predator)

Hi Stan,

Lights going off & on at work, PC not working, headed home and now Deb is telling me my niece is coming up with two teenage friends (girls) from highschool to spend the weekend..There goes both PC`s and my hearing .. I have the big PC hooked-up through my stereo system and she`ll rattle the pictures on the wall ..lol

I too would have tried the Restore Feature first. I will do some searching as long as I have the PC. I would suggest you clear the NVRAM and reload the Secondary IDE channel, this should cover the driver issue. You may have to completely remove MyDVD then reinstall it from the Dell disc.
I thought I had the instructions for the uninstall wrote down somewhere.


Take care





God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the
difference.

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Jeff, sounds like your going to have a full weekend.
My friends computer is a non Dell. I think it's an HP.
I'm waiting for a call to get more information.
If you kick up some information, let me know.

 

Thanks

Stan

Hi Stan,

Girls are watching another scary movie. I could not find as much as I had hoped, one suggestion is to remove the CMOS battery, let it set 5-10 minutes; another is that once you enter the BIOS hitting F10 resets the defaults but I have no way of verifying this; Disconnect all three drive, IDE cable and power cable, re-boot, shutdown, re-connect, turn PC back on.

Best Regards


Finally found it:

Title
Clean Install Instructions for DVDit! / MyDVD

Description
If a normal uninstall / install doesn't seem to solve a fundamental problem

Symptom
Errors when launching the program; or problems installing, such as serial number issues

Solution
Start by Removing MyDVD/DVDit! using the Add/Remove utility in Windows.

THEN

1. Uninstall previous version of DVDit/MyDVD from your machine. Manually delete all the files as follows.

a) Delete the "Sonic Solutions" folder (for DVDit!); If you own MyDVD, only delete the MyDVD folder within the
"Sonic" folder in your C drive's Program Files folder.

b) ******IF and ONLY if you cannot install the software completely or when the installer is looping or freezing
perform this operation:

Delete the following folders, if present, from the "InstallShield
Installation Information" folder found in your Program Files folder:

3b24d221-448e-11d4-a499-0050da6e827c
3b24d251-448e-11d4-a499-0050da6e827c
3b24d24f-448e-11d4-a499-0050da6e827c
634281f2-7383-11d4-981d-005004b3cc15
5E835305-63BB-4E55-BBB7-EEBBE67774DB
b8b2858e-77a4-4199-8108-d24befe7ec1d

*******

2). Registry Edit instructions:

a) Select the "Start" menu-->Select "Run"--->Type: regedit. Click Ok

b) Open the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER" folder (if it doesn't exist, don't worry about it)---> Open the "Software"
folder--->Select the "Sonic Solutions" (for DVDit!) or "Sonic" folder (for MyDVD), right click on it and delete
it.

c) Open the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE" folder---> Open the "Software" folder-->Select the Sonic Solutions" (for
DVDit!) or "Sonic" folder (for MyDVD), right click on it and delete it.

3). Reboot your computer (stops services so registry can be written
correctly)

4). Re-install software

Stan,
I do not have MyDVD so I have no idea if this works...sorry



God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do and the eyesight to tell the
difference.

---

CD/RW Link

Message Edited by Predator on 09-18-2004 12:58 AM

Saved by another scary movie...

Jeff, as it turns out a fresh reboot and reinstalation of the software, did the trick.
It wasn't as serious as we thought.
Thanks for your help and suggestions.

Regards,

Stan

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Glad you got it running!

I was going to suggest driving a wooden stake through the cpu…