What should I check to see why XP is not able to recognise the drive?

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I run XP Pro. When I click my CD player in Windows Explorer (the Z
drive) I get this message:

Z:\ is not accessible
Incorrect function

Also I can not get Properties for the CD player.

I have checked to see if the BIOS is picking up the CD player (and
recorder). That seems ok.

What should I check to see why XP is not able to recognise the drive?

Andy



PS: I vaguely recall that I may (or may not) have disabled some XP
function or another to do with CDs on my PC.

"Andy" wrote:

> What should I check to see why XP is not able to recognise the drive?
>
> Below are the details.
>
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> I run XP Pro. When I click my CD player in Windows Explorer (the Z
> drive) I get this message:
>
> Z:\ is not accessible
> Incorrect function
>
> Also I can not get Properties for the CD player.
>
> I have checked to see if the BIOS is picking up the CD player (and
> recorder). That seems ok.
>
> What should I check to see why XP is not able to recognise the drive?
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> PS: I vaguely recall that I may (or may not) have disabled some XP
> function or another to do with CDs on my PC.
>
> > I had a problem with my cd and dvd burner and when i checked and it said all was working properly. but it wasn't. what i did was right click on my computer and properties and then hardware. i went to device manager and clicked on my cd drive and update driver,it took a few minutes and then told me to reboot to get changes did the same thing with my dvd and all is now working well.Hope this helps!

Look in Device Manager and see if it is correctly recognized there, no
error messages.

Andy wrote:

> What should I check to see why XP is not able to recognise the drive?
>
> Below are the details.
>
> ------
>
> I run XP Pro. When I click my CD player in Windows Explorer (the Z
> drive) I get this message:
>
> Z:\ is not accessible
> Incorrect function
>
> Also I can not get Properties for the CD player.
>
> I have checked to see if the BIOS is picking up the CD player (and
> recorder). That seems ok.
>
> What should I check to see why XP is not able to recognise the drive?
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> PS: I vaguely recall that I may (or may not) have disabled some XP
> function or another to do with CDs on my PC.
>