**Urgent** DVD combo help
Greeting's
Forgive me if I have provided insufficient information but I have absolutely *NO* knowledge about hardware. This problem is extremely important as I have to submit a report by tomorrow afternoon.
I got a DVD by mail with some data on it. When i insert it into my drive the drive light flashes and then there is write activity on the hard-disk this goes on for hours and hours without any result. If I try to open my computer is doesn't or even If I try to open the DVD drive through run or cmd it doesn't. I disabled norton but it doesn't seem to help. I took the DVD to my friends place some time back and it worked flawlessly. :(
There are no stores open so I can buy blank cd's and get them burned at my friends house (its 12 here). I have no idea what to do all normal CD's and CD-RW work properly. I have a dell PC and I had same problem in the past where the guy made me delete some data in 2 reg keys but I don't remember. I donut have a 24*7 help contract so I cant call them till 9 tomorrow. I really need help guys.
I have Nero so I ran its info tool and here is some info :
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Nero InfoTool 4.00
Drive Information
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Drive : HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B
Type : Combo Drive
Firmware Version : C103
Buffer Size : 2 MB
Date : ?
Serial Number
Vendor Specific : H.L.D.S.2003/12/11
Drive Letter : H:\
Location : 0:0
Mechanism : Tray
Read Speed : 9 X
Write Speed : 48 , 40 , 32 , 24 , 16 , 8 X
Read CD Text : Yes
Return C2 Pointers : Yes
Read CD-R : Yes
Read CD-RW : Yes
Read DVD-ROM : Yes
Read DVD-RAM : No
Read DVD-R : Yes
Read DVD-RW : Yes
Read DVD-R DL : No
Read DVD+R : Yes
Read DVD+RW : Yes
Read DVD+R DL : No
Read BD-ROM : No
Read BD-R : No
Read BD-RE : No
Read HD DVD-ROM : No
Read HD DVD-R : No
Read HD DVD-RW : No
Read HD-BURN : No
Read Digital Audio : Yes
Read CD+G : No
Read VideoCD : Yes
Write CD-R : Yes
Write CD-RW : Yes
Write DVD-R : No
Write DVD-RW : No
Write DVD-R DL : No
Write DVD+R : No
Write DVD+RW : No
Write DVD+R DL : No
Write DVD-RAM : No
Write BD-R : No
Write BD-RE : No
Write HD DVD-R : No
Write HD DVD-RW : No
Write HD-BURN-R : No
Write HD-BURN-RW : No
Buffer Underrun Protection : Yes
Mount Rainier : No
SolidBurn : No
Modes : Packet, TAO, DAO, SAO, RAW SAO, RAW SAO 16, RAW SAO 96, RAW DAO 16, RAW DAO 96
Region Protection Control : RPC II
Region : 5
Changes User : 4
Changes Vendor : 4
Interface Information
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Adapter 1
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Description : Primary IDE Channel
Driver
Description : System32\DRIVERS\atapi.sys
Company : Microsoft Corporation
Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Description : IDE/ATAPI Port Driver
Attached Devices
Description : Master: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B
Type : CD-Rom Drive
DMA : Off
Autorun : On
Adapter 2
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Description : Secondary IDE Channel
Driver
Description : System32\DRIVERS\atapi.sys
Company : Microsoft Corporation
Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Description : IDE/ATAPI Port Driver
Attached Devices
Description : Master: SAMSUNG HD160JJ
Type : Disk Drive
DMA : On
Adapter 3
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Description : VAX347S SCSI Controller
Driver
Description : System32\Drivers\vax347s.sys
Company :
Version : 3.47.0.0 built by: WinDDK
Description : SCSI miniport
Attached Devices
Adapter 4
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Description : Intel(R) 82801EB USB Universal Host Controller - 24DE
Driver
Description : System32\DRIVERS\usbuhci.sys
Company : Microsoft Corporation
Version : 5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)
Description : UHCI USB Miniport Driver
Attached Devices
Description : Generic USB SD Reader USB Device
Type : Disk Drive
Description : Generic USB CF Reader USB Device
Type : Disk Drive
Description : Generic USB SM Reader USB Device
Type : Disk Drive
Description : Generic USB MS Reader USB Device
Type : Disk Drive
ASPI Information
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System ASPI : ASPI installation is corrupted
WNASPI32.DLL : 4.71 (0002) 45056 bytes July 17, 2002
ASPI32.SYS : 4.71 (0002) built by: WinDDK 16512 bytes July 17, 2002
Nero ASPI : ASPI is installed and working properly
wnaspi32.dll : 2.0.1.74 164112 bytes November 02, 2004
Now all I can see is that in the end ASPI is corrupt anyway to fix it EXCEPT RE-INSTALLING WINDOWS.
Plz guys I really need help and fast. Thank's to everyone