I have the same drive and I'm quite happy with it. I replaced a DVD burner in my rig and everything including DVDAS finds it.

My guess is you had no trouble because your new drive ended up with the same drive letter as the old one. In my case that did not happen. My system had 2 optical drives: D: was my DVD writer (used by DVDA) and E: was a CD/DVD reader. I replaced the E: with the new Blu-Ray writer. But DVDA remained stuck on D: and did not give me the option to pick D: or E:.

I've created a problem incident with Sony. Hopefully they will have some sort of fix.

I'm not sure that the drive letter has anything to do with your problem but you could easily change the allocation to test the theory. The exact method may depend on which version of Windows you have, but it will be in Disk Management.

You can force Windows to reinstall the driver. The easiest is to go to the hardware manager and disable the device. When you re-start the PC, it will "discover" new hardware and install drivers for it.

I believe that you need to uninstall the device in Device Manager for this to work.

If only it were that simple....I wouldn't have had to create this message thread.

Removing the device and letting Windows rediscover it does not help. Neither does deleting the current driver or searching for a new one. Neither does disabling and re-enabling the device. In all cases DVDAS stays stuck with only the D: (DVD writer drive) available as an option.

What should happen of course is DVDAS should recognize the new device. For some reason it simply does not do this. I'm hoping the Sony Tech Support guys will have a solution. But if they don't I'm happy enough using DVDAS to create the ISO file and then using Win7's built-in burning option to write it to a Blu-Ray disk.

Using Disk Management to change the drive letters did not work. DVDAS still saw only the DVD drive (with its new drive letter.)

Sony Tech Support had no real suggestion other than reinstalling. I might try this sometime later. In the meantime I'll just use Win7 to burn my ISO files.

Birk, why not go at this a step at a time?

Disconnect all your drives except for the new Blu-ray. Bring up the system and let DVDAS identify and register it. Do any disk management to make it a single optical writer system pointing to D: Then, add back in your DVD burner and see how that goes?

Clever idea Ken - but no help. I un-installed the DVD drive and verified it was gone in Explorer. When I started DVDAS and got to the Create Blu-Ray dialog the drive drop-down list was empty. That's right - no choices were available. None. So it does seem that DVDAS gets stuck on the drive it picks up at install time.

I went through all the Sony Creative Software entries in the registry and none of the DVDAS keys have any reference to the burn drive. So the drive must be in some obscure file associated with the DVDAS install. I can't imagine where else it could be.

So it does seem that DVDAS gets stuck on the drive it picks up at install time.

This may be so in some cases, but I have just plugged in an external DVD write/BD-ROM combo drive and it was picked up immediately by DVDAS.

There seems to be something about some drives that DVDAS just does not like.

Mike

TOG62:

That is very interesting. Your experience proves DVDAS can locate new devices when it sees them...and when it wants to. My guess is that it found your external drive because it is a DVD writer, and not a Blu-Ray writer.

Of course this seems ridiculous since DVDAS is supposed to be able to write ISO files to Blu-Ray writers.

Very confusing indeed.

Birk,
Did you get DVDA to finally recognized the drive? You mentioned you had to start windows 7 with the F8 option to install unsigned drivers. Was this LG blue ray burner the one you had trouble with? I am awaiting delivery of it and want to make sure the install go smooth since I do want to install the software that comes with it to be able to play back blue ray disc without having to use VLC media player and playing only .m2ts files inside the STREAM folder.

Yes, after using the F8 Allow Unsigned Drivers option at boot time my system (WIn7-64) did install the LG drivers OK. After that both of my optical drives worked OK and DVDAS did see both of them. I was able to burn an ISO file to a Blu-Ray disk with no trouble.

In addition to the device drivers I also installed the Blu-Ray/DBD player software and the optical disk label maker. No problems with either of those.

The key to it all is the F8 Allow Unsigned Driver option. If you don't do this some really bad things will happen.