I have a cd-rom drive and a dvdrw-cdrw drive and neither one will recognize
when a cd-rom (such as games or music) is inserted, it's as if they are not
even in there. To my knowledge no changes were made at the time they stopped
reading them. (Do have small children playing on it though.) Dvd's play in
the dvd drive though. I updated the Imapi already and that made no
difference. I've already tried the xcopy command also. Cd wouldn't copy but
dvd did. Hardware, drivers and codecs are good. Tried a new IDE cable but it
didn't do any good. I have had 2 CD's read though. One was the driver
installer from Dell but not much use here. Just today for the heck of it I
inserted a new CD that I got from my cat scan and it worked fine. It did
however have it's own viewer.?.? Is there some sort of "behind the scenes"
viewer that Windows has that could be the problem? I'm running on xp pro.
Recently put in sp3 hoping it would help. No good. For now no music cd's and
only games on dvd's. Get's kind of boring.

frkid2,

Unfortunately, Windows Explorer handles the CD components when it is loaded into the CD tray. Your driver may be
outdated, corrupted, or incompatible with one or more updates that has been installed on your computer, forcing it to quit
unannounced. Have you checked your device manager to make sure there are no error reports to be viewed, or unknown devices
listed?

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"frkid2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:033B8D51-DABC-40E7-BC62-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have a cd-rom drive and a dvdrw-cdrw drive and neither one will recognize
> when a cd-rom (such as games or music) is inserted, it's as if they are not
> even in there. To my knowledge no changes were made at the time they stopped
> reading them. (Do have small children playing on it though.) Dvd's play in
> the dvd drive though. I updated the Imapi already and that made no
> difference. I've already tried the xcopy command also. Cd wouldn't copy but
> dvd did. Hardware, drivers and codecs are good. Tried a new IDE cable but it
> didn't do any good. I have had 2 CD's read though. One was the driver
> installer from Dell but not much use here. Just today for the heck of it I
> inserted a new CD that I got from my cat scan and it worked fine. It did
> however have it's own viewer.?.? Is there some sort of "behind the scenes"
> viewer that Windows has that could be the problem? I'm running on xp pro.
> Recently put in sp3 hoping it would help. No good. For now no music cd's and
> only games on dvd's. Get's kind of boring.
>

That was the first thing that I did. I do believe that I mentioned it was
both the DVD player and the CD player. DVD player reads DVD's fine, just not
the CD's. The DVD player is both a DVD/RW and a CD/RW. They both read all
CD's just fine until about a month ago and then they both just quit.

"Colton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:42FC5DDF-989F-4021-9435-(E-Mail Removed)...
> frkid2,
>
> Unfortunately, Windows Explorer handles the CD components when it is
> loaded into the CD tray. Your driver may be outdated, corrupted, or
> incompatible with one or more updates that has been installed on your
> computer, forcing it to quit unannounced. Have you checked your device
> manager to make sure there are no error reports to be viewed, or unknown
> devices listed?
>
> --
>
> Colton, PHP/VB6/HTML/CSS/Javscript/IIS/Apache
> OS: Vista Home Premium x86 SP1
> Location: NC, USA
>
> - http://explosion.debug-inc.com
> - (E-Mail Removed)
> - AIM: Trouncing
>
> *Please include that you recieved my contact information from the
> newsgroup, or your message will be ignored.
>
>
> "frkid2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:033B8D51-DABC-40E7-BC62-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>I have a cd-rom drive and a dvdrw-cdrw drive and neither one will
>>recognize
>> when a cd-rom (such as games or music) is inserted, it's as if they are
>> not
>> even in there. To my knowledge no changes were made at the time they
>> stopped
>> reading them. (Do have small children playing on it though.) Dvd's play
>> in
>> the dvd drive though. I updated the Imapi already and that made no
>> difference. I've already tried the xcopy command also. Cd wouldn't copy
>> but
>> dvd did. Hardware, drivers and codecs are good. Tried a new IDE cable but
>> it
>> didn't do any good. I have had 2 CD's read though. One was the driver
>> installer from Dell but not much use here. Just today for the heck of it
>> I
>> inserted a new CD that I got from my cat scan and it worked fine. It did
>> however have it's own viewer.?.? Is there some sort of "behind the
>> scenes"
>> viewer that Windows has that could be the problem? I'm running on xp pro.
>> Recently put in sp3 hoping it would help. No good. For now no music cd's
>> and
>> only games on dvd's. Get's kind of boring.
>>
>

You don't happen to be running Nero 9? If so, look at burnrights..

"Kat" wrote:

> That was the first thing that I did. I do believe that I mentioned it was
> both the DVD player and the CD player. DVD player reads DVD's fine, just not
> the CD's. The DVD player is both a DVD/RW and a CD/RW. They both read all
> CD's just fine until about a month ago and then they both just quit.
>
> "Colton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:42FC5DDF-989F-4021-9435-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > frkid2,
> >
> > Unfortunately, Windows Explorer handles the CD components when it is
> > loaded into the CD tray. Your driver may be outdated, corrupted, or
> > incompatible with one or more updates that has been installed on your
> > computer, forcing it to quit unannounced. Have you checked your device
> > manager to make sure there are no error reports to be viewed, or unknown
> > devices listed?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Colton, PHP/VB6/HTML/CSS/Javscript/IIS/Apache
> > OS: Vista Home Premium x86 SP1
> > Location: NC, USA
> >
> > - http://explosion.debug-inc.com
> > - (E-Mail Removed)
> > - AIM: Trouncing
> >
> > *Please include that you recieved my contact information from the
> > newsgroup, or your message will be ignored.
> >
> >
> > "frkid2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:033B8D51-DABC-40E7-BC62-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >>I have a cd-rom drive and a dvdrw-cdrw drive and neither one will
> >>recognize
> >> when a cd-rom (such as games or music) is inserted, it's as if they are
> >> not
> >> even in there. To my knowledge no changes were made at the time they
> >> stopped
> >> reading them. (Do have small children playing on it though.) Dvd's play
> >> in
> >> the dvd drive though. I updated the Imapi already and that made no
> >> difference. I've already tried the xcopy command also. Cd wouldn't copy
> >> but
> >> dvd did. Hardware, drivers and codecs are good. Tried a new IDE cable but
> >> it
> >> didn't do any good. I have had 2 CD's read though. One was the driver
> >> installer from Dell but not much use here. Just today for the heck of it
> >> I
> >> inserted a new CD that I got from my cat scan and it worked fine. It did
> >> however have it's own viewer.?.? Is there some sort of "behind the
> >> scenes"
> >> viewer that Windows has that could be the problem? I'm running on xp pro.
> >> Recently put in sp3 hoping it would help. No good. For now no music cd's
> >> and
> >> only games on dvd's. Get's kind of boring.
> >>
> >