This is my first post looking for help, normally I can find any answers I need by googling, but this one has me stumped.
I recently decided to try and get my Sony DRU-820a DVD burner working with my new computer running Vista 32-bit. The drive is IDE, and my motherboard only has SATA, so I bought an IDE to SATA adapter. I have the drive hooked up, and eventually got the computer to recognize it, but it can't find drivers for it.
It's recognized as Sony DRU820a in the BIOS, and Vista recognizes it as that when it first starts, but it says "Installing Device Drivers" for about 15 minutes before it gives up and just labels it as "CD-ROM Drive" and no software will recognize it as a DVD burner. I contacted Sony, but the drive is supposed to be "plug and play" so they don't have any drivers for it.
I found a fix in the Windows knowledge base to delete a registry key (this article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060#nextsteps), and that was how I got Windows to recognize the drive at all. I went back in and there is no entry anymore for Lowerfilters or Upperfilters, so that fix won't work.
Any ideas how to get Vista to recognize it as the right drive? Is it not working because of the IDE to SATA adapter?
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