Sony :: NR285E Cd/dvd Driver After Win 7 Upgrade
Feb 9, 2010
I have a nr285e that I have upgraded to win7 and the cd/dvd burning capabilities haven't worked since.
The drive is recognized and reads CDs but fails to burn every time leaving me with a stack of coasters. I have tried installing drivers from vaio support page, 2 of them installed and did nothing and the drive firmware upgrade said no valid drives recognized.
I then tried deleting upper and lower filters in the registry which didn't work either.
I think the problem is that windows is installing a driver that just 'sort of works' but is preventing me from installing the right driver that actually gives me full functionality and the ability to burn cds and dvds.
The drivers that are automatically installed by windows and listed in device manager:
BCFA N8XERSHQBCX SCSI CDRom device
BCFA N8XERSHQBCX SCSI CDRom device
Matshita dvd ram UJ870QJ
I also tried deleting the driver and installing one from support page, no luck there either
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The following notebooks are not supported in this release:
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