disk in drive is not formatted, do you want to format it? (CDROM)

[steve]

I've seen this post many times and have not seen a single answer to it. Does
ANYONE know why win2k just randomly decides it's not going to read my cdrom
anymore, even though I can boot from it, it shows up in the device manager
etc? There's nothing wrong with it (I've tried 2 different ones). I know
this has happened to a lot of people, I just can't believe nobody has an
answer. I've looked on Google, microsoft, annoyances.org you name it. If
anyone has a clue, I'd be greatly appreciative.

Steve

ps, I've unplugged and replugged, removed devices, IDE ports you name it. Is
a windows reinstall the only answer? If Microsoft expects me to buy WinXP to
solve this (vs them solving it) they can forget it. I say that becuase this
happened to a buddy of mine the other day also and that's what he ended up
doing.

 

[steve]

As with many other problems, this one was solved with one easy step.
Step 1. Remove Norton Anti-virus
Step 2. Curse Norton Anti-Virus

One of the things that got me off track was I think I had a cmos battery go
bad at the same time and I was unable to boot up etc. Funny how things
always seem to pile up like that. Thanks anyway.

By the way, I finally got this figured out by getting into safe mode (I
previously had been unable to due to the cmos issue) and it worked, so I
figured there was a conflict. Anyway, Norton sucks, I want my $ back...

Hopefully people searching for an answer to this issue may get something out
of this experience.
I also noted that when running Nero disk check, it said the driver was
atapi.sys and I think it's supposed to be cdrom.sys. At least for the basic
cdrom I have installed now. I was formerly using a cd-rw so maybe that's the
correct driver for that, I don't know.
Norton sucks.
If anyone knows how to run Norton (which I unfortunately paid for) AND
resolve the conflict,.I'd be pleased to hear it.

Steve