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Update 23/5/10: A commenter has informed me of the new 02 version of the firmware for both of these drives. At my work we pre-emptively reflash the drives before they go out because we couldn’t stand the thought of selling them with the Bluebirds crap still in them.
#LG CD ROM DRIVER FOR FREE#
If you seriously have no way of flashing it yourself though, any little PC shop ought to be able to do it for you for a small fee – if you visit the place you originally bought it from they may do it for free if you complain logically enough. They offer a fully-functional 30 day trial here, and I recommend trying that if you possibly can. Update 7/1/10: A few commenters here run Linux or BSD or something else that isn’t Windows I don’t currently have a practical way to experiment with it myself, but one commenter successfully reflashed his drive using Crossover Linux. LN01 firmware update for LG GH22LS50 (Lightscribe) DVD-RW: (2MB) Update 30/9/09: There’s a separate version for the Lightscribe-enabled GH22 LS50 that can be found here: I don’t recall seeing it in Control Panel there’s a link in the Bluebirds folder in your Start Menu to get rid of it.
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Obviously this just removes the installer and auto-runner from the drive if you’ve clicked yes to install it, you’ll have to uninstall it from your computer as well. The utter lack of official information from LG about this is disturbing. You might want to read that forum thread anyway.
It’s as bad as when ISPs used to rebrand Internet Explorer as being “provided by ” none of my customers could ever understand that IE was just a program on their computer and nothing to do with their ISP.Īnyway, the fellow who started this forum thread has the solution – there’s a firmware update for the drive that removes the Bluebirds installer, along with the fake disc-in-drive thing. You’ve changed how it behaves, and that fills us with false and misleading knowledge. Way to go, LG not only does your drive automatically try to install an unwanted program on your customers’ computers, but you’ve changed a fundamental thing about how CD drives work: If there’s no disc in the drive, it should be empty and that’s the end of it. It’s probably even helpful, for the few people who let it sit around long enough to find out. It just sits in your system tray until you close it or uninstall it (Control Panel -> Add/remove programs, in XP). Which means that every time you close the tray with nothing in it, you get prompted to install it, thanks to Windows helpfully autorunning it. Not on a CD, of course it’s hacked into the drive’s firmware, and shows up when there’s no disc in the drive at all.
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It’s some kind of drag-to-disc software included with the drive. Except it comes with a nasty surprise, and that surprise is Bluebirds. We’ve started stocking these at work – just the next low-cost SATA burner option for us. The content of this website is licensed under a Creative Commons License.