FDD & CD-RW drives not behaving

[Nick Hoare]

Hi all, I have the following problems:
My Floppy drive and CD-RW drives are not working properly.

When I insert a disk in FDD A: and got to windows explorer, try to open A:,
it gives me the prompt: "The disk in drive a: is not formatted" "Do you want
to format it now?".

This is very annoying.

And both CD-RW drives are only being noted as CD drives in explorer when
they are normally noted as CD-RW.

I put a CD-R in and try to read it but nothing is shown. If I go to the CMD
prompt and try to access the FDD or CDRW drives I get the message: "The
volume does not contain a recognized file system". "Please make sure that
all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not
corrupted."..........But I only burnt files onto the CDRW in that same drive
a few months ago! and the same with the FDD!

I have tried updating the drivers but Win XP says they are the most recent.
Have tried re-installing, but CDRW and FDD just reverts back to old ways.
Everything is ok in terms of BIOS and cables as far as I can tell.

Also (may or not be related), for some reason the Sharing and Security
option is not on the right click menu for the FDD or CD drives? any ideas
greatly appreciated as I can't de-select them as being shared.

I am running Win XP Pro on an AMD athlon 2600 using Gigabyte k7m400m m/b,
256 MB ddr, Acer and Lite-on CD-RW drives ( - too old for factory driver
updates).

PLEASE help if you know how! This is really infuriating and I desperately
need these drives to be working.

Kind Regards and Thanks in advance,

Nick.

 

[Malke]

Hi all, I have the following problems:
My Floppy drive and CD-RW drives are not working properly.

When I insert a disk in FDD A: and got to windows explorer, try to
open A:, it gives me the prompt: "The disk in drive a: is not
formatted" "Do you want to format it now?".

This is very annoying.

And both CD-RW drives are only being noted as CD drives in explorer
when they are normally noted as CD-RW.

I put a CD-R in and try to read it but nothing is shown. If I go to
the CMD prompt and try to access the FDD or CDRW drives I get the
message: "The volume does not contain a recognized file system".
"Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and
that the volume is not corrupted."..........But I only burnt files
onto the CDRW in that same drive a few months ago! and the same with
the FDD!

I have tried updating the drivers but Win XP says they are the most
recent. Have tried re-installing, but CDRW and FDD just reverts back
to old ways. Everything is ok in terms of BIOS and cables as far as I
can tell.

Also (may or not be related), for some reason the Sharing and Security
option is not on the right click menu for the FDD or CD drives? any
ideas greatly appreciated as I can't de-select them as being shared.

I am running Win XP Pro on an AMD athlon 2600 using Gigabyte k7m400m
m/b,
256 MB ddr, Acer and Lite-on CD-RW drives ( - too old for factory
driver updates).

Do the drives show up in the BIOS and/or in another operating system
(like if you boot with Knoppix)?

Malke

 

[Nick Hoare]

Shows up in BIOS ok, don't have any other o/s to try.

 

[D]

I had the exact same problem. I used the same solutions you tried and
had to copy my backup HD to get the drives to work.
I will monitor this news group in the hope that someone has discovered
the cause of this problem.

Dale

 

[Nick Hoare]

Hey Dale, what do you mean when you say you had to copy you backup HD to get
the drives to work?
Did you copy the driver files over from the backup to the master HD?

I know the drives will work if i put them in another computer running XP
Pro, but any CD or FDD drives i put in this machine running off the same O/S
on this particular HDD don't want to work. The thing is, i need this machine
to work!

Thanks for the reply...i am sure the fix is out there....if someone can tell
me exactly that'd be great!

Cheers
Nick.

 

[Nick Hoare]

Fixed it!
Needed to delete the first line in my autoexec file which was assigning my
CD drive to a driver i had for an old old 4x CDROM drive i had many years
ago.
For some reason this has also fixed my FDD problem too.

Thanks for the help.
Nick.