Dear all
Sorry but this is gonna be long as I've had this problem for about a
year now. I was going to head this "Autoplay does not work" but I've
seen so many of these postings and the various solutions do not seem to
work for me. So maybe Autoplay not working is a *symptom* of the problem
I have.
My system is home built. Everything else in XP works fine. Everything is
stable.
My machine is triple boot Win98 in the primary partition (it was the
first OS I installed when I built it). That has it's main drive letter as c:
WinXP pro 2002 SP1 plus all critical updates in another boot partition
whose drive letter is h:
Another version of XP as above but no applications of any note which I
refer to as vanilla and has a drive letter of j:
I have 2 CD drives. A Samsung CD-ROM which has a drive letter of f: and
a HP CD Writer with a drive letter of g: when looked at from the system
with h: drive and where my problem show itself.
The symptoms. These are variable and only occur in the system on drive
h: with the 2 CD drives. The other two partitions (both 98 & vanilla)
have working CD drives so we can rule out hardware.
Details: If I place a CD in either drive, most of the time autoplay does
not function and also the volume name is not visible, although sometimes
the amount of space on the CD shows along with any available space. If I
try to install a program from the CD in this condition, sometimes the
install fails and I finish up copying files to the hard drive. If the
volume name is visible then it is likely that I won't have any other
problems - I can even write to a CD using the CD writer.
I have tried registry tweaks, tweak -ui, had sessions with Microsoft
support and run the fix wizard on both drives with exactly the same
results - zilch!
I'm almost at the stage where I'm thinking of rebuilding afresh on a new
hard disk and then porting data across to it, but before I do that this
is my one last hope.
help!!
--
Harry Broom
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights"
John Paul Getty 1892 - 1976
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