cd drive

[gizmo news]

My cd drive doesn't work. I tried right clicking on D: drive and clicking
open. Deleting hardware from device manager. Nothing works. Does this mean I
have a bad cd drive? .

gizmo

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

My cd drive doesn't work. I tried right clicking on D: drive and clicking
open. Deleting hardware from device manager. Nothing works. Does this mean I
have a bad cd drive? .

Stick in the XP CD-ROM and set the BIOS to boot from it,
restart the PC, if the drives starts up and loads the CD-ROM
you can rule out a *hardware* problem. If it remains quiet,
then you could take the PC apart, unplug the power-cord and
just pull the cables on either side and re-seat them. I've
had a PC here and it couldn't start, turned out it was the
IDE cable. If this still doesn't solve the issue then you
could try to swap it with a known working unit.

Now you have to be strong: CD-Rom drives do die and need to
be replaced... :-/

gizmo

Dragomir Kollaric[/QUOTE]

 

[Peter Foldes]

What error message or code is shown if shown at all. Also check your Event viewer for error message on the CD ROM

 

[Don Phillipson]

My cd drive doesn't work. I tried right clicking on D: drive and clicking
open. Deleting hardware from device manager. Nothing works. Does this mean I
have a bad cd drive? .

Probably yes (assuming your only change was to
remove the CD drive from Device Manager, then reboot.)
Failure to "see" a "new" device at boot suggests it now
is defective. (Remember how cheaply these now are made.)

 

[gizmo]

When right clicking on the D: drive and clicking open a window pops up
saying put CD in drive. That's all it does.

 

[Peter Foldes]

See if this applies


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q316529

 

[gizmo]

Rather than going into the registry I'm going to assume I have a bad cd
drive. I have 2 questions. If I buy a cd-rw drive will it burn cd-r & cd-rw
discs? And since my computer already has a OS installed on it as long as I
set the drive to master and plug it in the same place as the previous cd
drive was plugged in when I boot up the computer won't it detect and install
the proper software automatically?

--
gizmo

See if this applies


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q316529

 

[Peter Foldes]

The answer is yes.

But what happens when you spend money on a new CD-RW and the same issue will still persist?? Better fix it now if that is the issue. You then will have to do it with the new CD-RW after spending your money

 

[Bill in Co.]

Better yet, just stick with CD-R's, and avoid all the potential problematic
pitfalls of the RW packet writing formats.

 

[gizmo]

You have a good point there. The two links you gave me were very
informative, I think I'll give it a try.

--
gizmo

The answer is yes.

But what happens when you spend money on a new CD-RW and the same issue will
still persist?? Better fix it now if that is the issue. You then will have
to do it with the new CD-RW after spending your money

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

The answer is yes.

But what happens when you spend money on a new CD-RW and the same issue will still persist?? Better fix it now if that is the issue. You then will have to do it with the new CD-RW after spending your money

<start OT request>

Peter, I think it's possible to adjust your software that it will
wrap the line at about 72 chars? Actually your whole message was
one long line here.

<end OT request>

I just wonder what's wrong with booting a CD-ROM before any OS is
even loaded? I've set my PC to boot from CD-ROM anyways. It's very
rare that a boot-able CD is in the drive.




Dragomir Kollaric[/QUOTE]

 

[CaptAmerica]

Better yet, just stick with CD-R's, and avoid all the potential problematic
pitfalls of the RW packet writing formats.

There is nothing wrong with using CDRW for non-critical stuff. Also,
they can be used without them being set up for UDF (packet writing).
You can burn them just like a regular CDRW, then erase them later and
use them again. That's what I do in my car all the time. I burn a CD
with about 15 CDs of ripped MP3s, then burn them to a CDRW I use in
the car. Once I've listened to all the MP3s in the car, I bring it
back inside, erase it, and repeat the process - without ever once
setting it up for UDF.

 

[gizmo]

After editing the registry and it was set to cd-rom instead of cd-rw which I
changed. After right clicking on the D: drive there was no Recording tab.
Does that mean the cd drive is bad?

--
gizmo

The answer is yes.

But what happens when you spend money on a new CD-RW and the same issue will
still persist?? Better fix it now if that is the issue. You then will have
to do it with the new CD-RW after spending your money

 

[Dragomir Kollaric]

After editing the registry and it was set to cd-rom instead of cd-rw which I
changed. After right clicking on the D: drive there was no Recording tab.
Does that mean the cd drive is bad?

In the past *COULD* you *BURN* CD-ROM's with the drive? If
it can't be done any longer then the answer is YES, You've
got a bad drive. Have you tried booting a *LIVE-CD-ROM* like
the windwsXP then you will know for sure the thing still
works hardware wise. This is why I offered you this advise
already.

--
gizmo

The answer is yes.

But what happens when you spend money on a new CD-RW and the same issue will
still persist?? Better fix it now if that is the issue. You then will have
to do it with the new CD-RW after spending your money

Dragomir Kollaric[/QUOTE]

 

[gizmo]

Some how I missed your post but I will definitely try your suggestions.

 

[gizmo]

I put the OS CD in and booted to it and it tried to boot but failed. As far
as opening up the computer and checking the connections I figure if I can
delete the device from device manager and reboot the computer and it detects
the drive and installs the software then it must be connected properly. I
guess I will install a new drive.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Have you tried what I posted ???

Installing a new drive and spending money on it will have no effect whatsoever if the issue is as I posted.

Check your Upper and Lower filters

 

[gizmo]

I checked the registry and it was set to cd-rom drive so I changed it to
cd-rw. It still failed to work. What do you mean by check upper and lower
filters?

--
gizmo

Have you tried what I posted ???

Installing a new drive and spending money on it will have no effect
whatsoever if the issue is as I posted.

Check your Upper and Lower filters

 

[Peter Foldes]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939052/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314060

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

I checked the registry and it was set to cd-rom drive so I changed it to
cd-rw. It still failed to work. What do you mean by check upper and lower
filters?

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gizmo

Have you tried what I posted ???

Installing a new drive and spending money on it will have no effect
whatsoever if the issue is as I posted.

Check your Upper and Lower filters