I have recently run into trouble with my DVD ROM and DVD
RW drives. Neither of them seems to be able to read any
data or music when I put in a disk. When I restart my
computer with a disk inside while it boots, the disk is
detected and I can read files from it. When the disk is
put in after Windows loads, it only detects it as a CD-
ROM, displays the icon in My Computer, but says "Please
insert a disk into drive [letter]:". It however can read
a disk I put in when I am in safe mode but not in regular
mode. I am stuck because I have tried all of the
following:
1) Restarting the computer
2) Reinstalling the device drivers both in regular and
safe mode.
3) Trying different mediums and CDs.
4) Using different programs to access the drives.
5) Gone to device manager and made sure they were working
perfectly fine.

The only solution I can think of is a missing driver
file, which is unlikely since I have reinstalled them and
the drivers are not in conflict, or something different
happens when Windows boots up in regular mode which
causes the drives to not be able to be detected properly.

If you need more information for my problem, please ask
me, I need this problem fixed as soon as possible because
I'm stuck without CD/DVD drives. My drives are:
Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-117
Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D

Any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks!

a common cause of this is cd burning or dvd software.
Have you recently install either of these?


>-----Original Message-----
>I have recently run into trouble with my DVD ROM and DVD
>RW drives. Neither of them seems to be able to read any
>data or music when I put in a disk. When I restart my
>computer with a disk inside while it boots, the disk is
>detected and I can read files from it. When the disk is
>put in after Windows loads, it only detects it as a CD-
>ROM, displays the icon in My Computer, but says "Please
>insert a disk into drive [letter]:". It however can read
>a disk I put in when I am in safe mode but not in
regular
>mode. I am stuck because I have tried all of the
>following:
>1) Restarting the computer
>2) Reinstalling the device drivers both in regular and
>safe mode.
>3) Trying different mediums and CDs.
>4) Using different programs to access the drives.
>5) Gone to device manager and made sure they were
working
>perfectly fine.
>
>The only solution I can think of is a missing driver
>file, which is unlikely since I have reinstalled them
and
>the drivers are not in conflict, or something different
>happens when Windows boots up in regular mode which
>causes the drives to not be able to be detected properly.
>
>If you need more information for my problem, please ask
>me, I need this problem fixed as soon as possible
because
>I'm stuck without CD/DVD drives. My drives are:
>Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-117
>Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated
>Thanks!
>
>.
>

I experienced the same problem as u.......... same problem..

okay, mine goes like this..
This morning, I reformatted my computer.. Everything was so successfully installed until i installing the last CD.. The graphic card driver..

The installation went on half way only.. then it stopped moving.. i wait and wait.. still not moving, so finally i just RESET it.. After that, i tried to re-install that driver again by inserted the CD in my cd-rom.. Yaiks.. my cd-rom couldn't read it.. and it said the samething as u..."Please insert a disk into drive [letter]:" when i click my cd-rom drive in MY COMPUTER.. I also tried other CD, and is still the same phrase..

Oh NO !!!!!!!!!..... PEOPLE OUT THERE, PLS HELP 2 OF US... pls pls..

I deleted it because it was a trial version and I didn't
like it, do you think it deleted some shared driver that
I needed to read DVDs?

>-----Original Message-----
>a common cause of this is cd burning or dvd software.
>Have you recently install either of these?
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I have recently run into trouble with my DVD ROM and
DVD
>>RW drives. Neither of them seems to be able to read any
>>data or music when I put in a disk. When I restart my
>>computer with a disk inside while it boots, the disk is
>>detected and I can read files from it. When the disk is
>>put in after Windows loads, it only detects it as a CD-
>>ROM, displays the icon in My Computer, but says "Please
>>insert a disk into drive [letter]:". It however can
read
>>a disk I put in when I am in safe mode but not in
>regular
>>mode. I am stuck because I have tried all of the
>>following:
>>1) Restarting the computer
>>2) Reinstalling the device drivers both in regular and
>>safe mode.
>>3) Trying different mediums and CDs.
>>4) Using different programs to access the drives.
>>5) Gone to device manager and made sure they were
>working
>>perfectly fine.
>>
>>The only solution I can think of is a missing driver
>>file, which is unlikely since I have reinstalled them
>and
>>the drivers are not in conflict, or something different
>>happens when Windows boots up in regular mode which
>>causes the drives to not be able to be detected
properly.
>>
>>If you need more information for my problem, please ask
>>me, I need this problem fixed as soon as possible
>because
>>I'm stuck without CD/DVD drives. My drives are:
>>Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-117
>>Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-106D
>>
>>Any help is greatly appreciated
>>Thanks!
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>

try restarting you computer with the disc in the drive before you reboot. have same problem with xp on daughters xp pro machine with dvd/cd reader and cd burner. I don't know of an MS fix for this problem, or if this will temporarily resolve your problem, but did it with both drives this morning about 3 and they worked after that (probably until next time)...