Can't Access CD-ROM drive

[Carsten Faerk]

System says that there is no CD in drive, and after that
it says that the drive is not formatet.

If I put in a music CD it plays ok.

I have tryed to remove the CD drive from the system - so
that the system could find it again and installe the
driver - but no luck - the Drive gets installed ok - but
I can't access it. Can anyone help please ??

Regards

Carsten

 

[281 cu. in.]

You using CDR or CDRW rated at a specific speed, say 16x. You have a high
speed CD-ROM, let's say 48x. Drivers are screwed up or Windows is screwed
up, like always, CD-ROM tries reading file system at faster than 16x, and
that causes it not to see it.

There is a program by Ahead (Mitsumi) called CDSpeed or something like that,
you can set CD speed with it.

Other things you could do is take out CD and clean it with a cloth, it
should look clean have no scratches or finger prints, shut down windows and
try again.

 

[281 cu. in.]

we have

had prolems reading CD's burned using direct cd if the pc
that is trying to read the cd does not have direct cd
drivers installed.

Total B/S... You might have a problem reading CDR/Ws but that has nothing
to do with drivers or direct cd (or InCD for that matter)...

It is your CD speed, your CD reader's initial speed is incompatible with
your CDR/W disk, so it can't see it. Ahea Nero (Mitsumi) includes a CD
Speed utility, very handy, use it if you have it. If you do not have it,
all you can do is eject, restart, wipe CD, and hope it will works next time.

Enjoy Windows,


Alex