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D. S.
I've got two machines which won't read CD-ROM's and both
have Win2K on them. Here is a some background on what
transpired up to the failing of the CD-ROM Drives.
Machine "A" has two HDD's, one of which I recently loaded
Win2K onto a 40GB and added a 160GB HDD (No OS)as a
secondary digital video editing storge drive. My father's
machine "B" has two identical 13GB HDD's. One with Win98
and the other with Win2K. I recently installed the Win2K
as we were going to wipe the Win98 clean and do a weekly
swap for back-up purposes. When the "B" machine's 98 drive
started to act up and give all kinds of errors, he quickly
started to burn some CD-R's of his data files using the 98
OS. Upon finishing a couple of CD's he handed me the CD-R
(not CD-RW) and I checked it in my "A" machine running
Win2K. The disk read just fine. His machine then crashed
and we decided to put his 98 HDD on my "A" machine and
transfered all of his data files to my 160GB drive. He
switched HDD's and booted his "B" machine on Win2K. Upon
checking his recently created CD-R's he was unable to read
them and all future tries to read both CD-R's or
commercial CD-ROM's have failed. My "A" machine will not
read any CD media either. On machine "B" the CD-R's will
read in the CD-RW drive but not the ROM drive. The "A"
machine does not have CD-RW.
The "B" machine's CD-R will read both CD-ROMS and CD-R's
just fine.
Both of these machines CD-ROM drives had been functioning
just fine until this episode.
Any help would be appreciated,
D. Speirs
have Win2K on them. Here is a some background on what
transpired up to the failing of the CD-ROM Drives.
Machine "A" has two HDD's, one of which I recently loaded
Win2K onto a 40GB and added a 160GB HDD (No OS)as a
secondary digital video editing storge drive. My father's
machine "B" has two identical 13GB HDD's. One with Win98
and the other with Win2K. I recently installed the Win2K
as we were going to wipe the Win98 clean and do a weekly
swap for back-up purposes. When the "B" machine's 98 drive
started to act up and give all kinds of errors, he quickly
started to burn some CD-R's of his data files using the 98
OS. Upon finishing a couple of CD's he handed me the CD-R
(not CD-RW) and I checked it in my "A" machine running
Win2K. The disk read just fine. His machine then crashed
and we decided to put his 98 HDD on my "A" machine and
transfered all of his data files to my 160GB drive. He
switched HDD's and booted his "B" machine on Win2K. Upon
checking his recently created CD-R's he was unable to read
them and all future tries to read both CD-R's or
commercial CD-ROM's have failed. My "A" machine will not
read any CD media either. On machine "B" the CD-R's will
read in the CD-RW drive but not the ROM drive. The "A"
machine does not have CD-RW.
The "B" machine's CD-R will read both CD-ROMS and CD-R's
just fine.
Both of these machines CD-ROM drives had been functioning
just fine until this episode.
Any help would be appreciated,
D. Speirs