I wasn’t using my DVD writer for few months. I shifted my house recently. When I need to use it, it is not working.
It is SONY DVD RW (original). It doesn’t give any trouble for reading CD or DVD. When it comes to matter of writing, the problem starts.
Funny thing is that I could write CD but not DVD. When I try to write DVD, I get a message box saying power calibration error.
I searched about this error in google and I got some good answers. There were few methods which might rectify this error.
These are the methods which I followed but the problem still remains.
1) I try to write with minimum speed “2x” using Nero.
2) I reinstalled Nero.
3) I removed Nero using uninstaller which cleared even the registry of it.
4) I used different version of Nero.
5) I tried CD burner XP pro despite Nero.
6) I disabled the IMAPI service. It is found under Control panel->Administrative tools->Services. Now I have put that in manual.
7) I used DVD cleaning lens.
8) I reinserted IDE & power cable of DVD drive.
9) I removed the DVD drive completely and cleaned the lens manually with soft cloth.
10) ‘I checked my DVD drive in another computer. It worked fine. Even I could write DVD.’
11) I reinserted the drive in my computer and restarted.
12) BIOS didn’t detect the drive. I tried several times.
13) I reinserted the IDE cable from the motherboard.
14) BIOS detected the drive but it is not shown in windows explorer.
The removable storages are those for workstations.
- I scanned the hardware from device manager. Even it didn’t detect.
- I downloaded doug knox software which is used fix registry of cd/dvd.
- Doug knox function is to remove the upper and lower filters completely from the registry .
- I double clicked that program and it asked me to restart the system to apply changes. Problem still exists.
- So finally I tried manually the function of doug knox.
There are two filters upper and lower filters in registry which would make disappear of the cd/dvd drive.
Run->regedit->HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->System->Current control set->class->{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
But those upper and lower filters were not present already in the right pane.
I gonna try one more time reinserting the ide cables and power cables of DVD drive and the cables connected to the motherboard.
Now I have changed the jumper. My hard disk was in master and DVD drive was in slave. After changing DVD drive to master, it is visible in windows explorer.
A new problem arose. When I double click the drive, it says incorrect function. Then I rectified it by enabling the check box “Enable CD recording on this drive.”
I have checked by changing SMPS also.I tried to write DVD but still power calibration error exists.
