I was running win98 on a white box. I installed a CD-RW
that came with Nero and InCD (I think) UDF packet writing
software. Life was good and everything worked fine.
Recently my boot drive went bad (leaving only my data
drive with no bootable system) and I had to install a new
one (I took out my data drive first). I installed win2K
from CD onto the new drive from CD. It took 24hrs!!!!
The CD seemed to be running excrutiatingly slowly (like it
was reading 1 packet of data at a time - pardon my
terminology but I say this because the disk was spinning
and would flash the LED only once every 7 or 8 seconds).
Anyway, the system loaded, and I installed my old data
hard drive without problem, but now my CD-RW still runs
excrutiatingly slowly (takes 30seconds for explorer to
open a CD filesystem), when playing a music CD it plays a
second or two of music at a time then goes quiet while it
reads some more, often pops up the instruction to 'Insert
a CD into Drive D:' even when there is one already there,
and on top of this I cannot now recognize any floppy disks
in drive A (explorer will not open a floppy filesys, it
always says 'Insert a diskette into Drive A:' when there
is one already there - note I never touched the floppy
during my hard-disk installation).
Please give me suggestions if you can. Note that I have
tried un-installing and re-installing the CD drive a
number of times, have made sure the IDE controllers are
set to DMA if available, but note that that form reports
current mode to be 'PIO'.
Thanks
Stuart.
|
Similar Threads
