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welp - i figured the answer to LUK's question was implied in my response: imgburn reads, burns everything fine today. As for filters the only thing listed is anydvd as the lower class filter b/c i ran the reg fix to remove all filters when i was trying to get this thing to work. scratch that - it's back to not working - says "device not ready (medium not present - tray closed)" with a disc in the drive. What in the world could i have screwed up software wise that has caused the drive to have so many problems? Yeah i know it's hard to say but it's odd that only imgburn can (sometimes) get the drive to work.

welp - this morning it burns - reads- verifies ok, but now the drive seems to spin faster, thrash more and takes a long time to read before explorer will display contents. Any idea what happened to this thing? This seem to have happened after i screwed with the registry but really, wouldn't that result in work or not work situation? Why the thrashing and slow reads?

Short version: event viewer said cdrbsdrv.sys was incompatible with win 7 so i got rid of it - then HP Blu-ray drive died! Wont read any disc; nothing worked until i tried imgburn - clicked on discovery - and presto! it spun up the drive! rebooted - drive still read data/ audio/ video discs. But then suddenly it stopped. Even imgburn doesn't work this time - pc is ONE WEEK old I'm sure the drive isnt bad - this all happened after i messed with the settings - Any idea what imgburn did to get the drive to work? and what is missing from the system??