I am currently running Windows XP home on an athlon
machine. Recently the computer will not recognize any
cds or dvds when loaded in the drive unless I first
reboot the computer, then the disks are recognized
without a problem. The disk drives are present under "my
computer" and I have uninstalled the drives and
reinstalled them which did not correct the problem. I
have the same issue with my digital camera in that I have
to reboot the computer with the camera attached before it
recognizes the storage card in the camera. I am also
having problems with my floppy drive where it always
wants to format disks that are already formatted. All of
these items were running fine some time ago and I have
not added any new hardware to the computer, the only
thing I have done is to install windows updates and other
software.

Please help!

Ahhh, I'm not the only one)

I've got this problem on a fairly new laptop. The best
the support team (PC World) could offer was to iether
delete and re-install the CD drive,that didnt work. The
other idea they had was to re-install windows. This
problem has occured after some MS Windows updates!!

So any help resolving this issue will be most welcome.

Phil Martin.
>-----Original Message-----
>I am currently running Windows XP home on an athlon
>machine. Recently the computer will not recognize any
>cds or dvds when loaded in the drive unless I first
>reboot the computer, then the disks are recognized
>without a problem. The disk drives are present
under "my
>computer" and I have uninstalled the drives and
>reinstalled them which did not correct the problem. I
>have the same issue with my digital camera in that I
have
>to reboot the computer with the camera attached before
it
>recognizes the storage card in the camera. I am also
>having problems with my floppy drive where it always
>wants to format disks that are already formatted. All
of
>these items were running fine some time ago and I have
>not added any new hardware to the computer, the only
>thing I have done is to install windows updates and
other
>software.
>
>Please help!
>.
>

Copy of a reply on another thread. Probably posted there
cos my heads off this planet at the moment, full of FLU(

:
Had a long chat with MS support this afternoon))

It seems the answer to the problem is not the patch!

Well at least my problem was'nt. It was one of the
drivers in the startup group, the one for a Belkin Flash
Drive. As soon as we disabled the driver the CD drive
started working properly:-))))

If needed, go to Start, Run, msconfig and then the tab
for startup. From there disable all the drivers and do a
reboot, check the drive, enable a driver, reboot etc
routine to find the one thats causing the problem.

Phil Martin.

>-----Original Message-----
>Ahhh, I'm not the only one)
>
>I've got this problem on a fairly new laptop. The best
>the support team (PC World) could offer was to iether
>delete and re-install the CD drive,that didnt work. The
>other idea they had was to re-install windows. This
>problem has occured after some MS Windows updates!!
>
>So any help resolving this issue will be most welcome.
>
>Phil Martin.
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am currently running Windows XP home on an athlon
>>machine. Recently the computer will not recognize any
>>cds or dvds when loaded in the drive unless I first
>>reboot the computer, then the disks are recognized
>>without a problem. The disk drives are present
>under "my
>>computer" and I have uninstalled the drives and
>>reinstalled them which did not correct the problem. I
>>have the same issue with my digital camera in that I
>have
>>to reboot the computer with the camera attached before
>it
>>recognizes the storage card in the camera. I am also
>>having problems with my floppy drive where it always
>>wants to format disks that are already formatted. All
>of
>>these items were running fine some time ago and I have
>>not added any new hardware to the computer, the only
>>thing I have done is to install windows updates and
>other
>>software.
>>
>>Please help!
>>.
>>
>.
>