I have a DT-ST-HL GSA H55L DVD-Ram drive that I just bought. On Windows XP MCE system. When I first installed it, it seemed to work fine. I think after I uninstalled cd burning software the problems began. Now, autorun doesn't work at all. It has lightscribe capabilities but can't install the lightscribe software to make it work. I tried uninstalling the driver and reinstalling which hasn't fixed the problem and may have made it worse. LG does not offer a driver download only firmware. I am afraid to flash the firmware because if I do it wrong, I will brick the drive altogether. Windows does not offer any DVD -ram driver downloads - the one it is using is from 2001, so you would think there might be a new driver since! I would think that a re-install of an updated driver would fix the problem, but I have noticed that LG DVD-Ram drivers are very elusive. Any links to a better driver for this device would be greatly appreciated. Or any different ideas to try to fix would help too.
So can you use the drive normally? It shows up in my computer? What is the status of it in device manager (does it have an yellow explanation mark beside it?)
I figured out the fix. The problem was that uninstalling some burning program corrupted the registry for the DVD Ram drive. It put an invalid key. So the fix was simple - download the lightscribe utility that also fixes regisitry problems here http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/windows/index.aspx?id=1106
I ran the utility and restarted and everything was good again, and the lightscribe feature was back as well. I am posting this so that others may benefit if they have this problem with an LG Lightscribe drive
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