artigat1 Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 Hi,I've recently bought a Sony MZ-NH700 minidisc. I've installed Sonicstage 4.3 on my Vista PC and now I my DV/CD drive is not being recognised. The Device Manager says "Windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware. (code 37)". The drive is a NEC DVD_RW ND-3550A ATA Device. I have searched onlne and it installed the latest driver for the drive, but still it is not initialising. When I uninstall SonicStage, everything works fine again.I'm trying to convert some music from the stupid oma format into something I can actually use and I saw there was an option to burn an mp3 disc, but I can't do that as I have to uninstall SonicStage to use the CD drive. Has anyone else had a similar problem? What can I do to fix it? Is there a way to save files from the minidisc in a useful format (preferably mp3)?Thanks in advance for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted June 16, 2008 Report Share Posted June 16, 2008 I am soooo glad I am on a Mac ,........no offense to you , but I hear SOOOOO many problem with Vista , I had XP , and Kept mainly virus free , via AVG , Spybot Search and Destroy , and prodigous port closing . But I bought a Mac 1 and a Half years ago , and wont go back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artigat1 Posted June 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2008 Could you please point me in the direction of this PX Engine thread? I have tried uninstalling SonicStage and even then, I can't get my PC to recognise the CD drive any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted June 24, 2008 Report Share Posted June 24, 2008 http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=21145I would be inclined to install Nero, rather than Roxio, before SS. But either might work.I recently found a nasty problem with Windows recognizing CDs but not DVDs on one machine. Turned out to be hardware, because the CD and DVD functions use 2 different lasers, and only one was broken. At the current drive prices the easiest was to replace the drive. No reason to suppose that this might be your problem, however I imagine it's just possible you have a drive that reads DVD but not CD.Take a look here, alsohttp://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=20482If you can read CDs and or DVDs but not write one or other, the problem is more likely to be to do with the UDF reader. That's the driver component that allows raw access to an unformatted, writeable disk. This is just from poking around on the internet, but I think it's possible that the file PxHelp20.sys may be at the root of all these problems, assuming your hardware is ok.Hope this helps. Attached to this post is a driver list of one of my drives. This happens to be DVD and CD read, CD-only writer.See if your driver list looks like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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