CD-rom problem reading.

[Guest]

Hope someone can help...I had a cd-rom/dvd player installed as well as a cd
writer. I have just taken out the cd writer and installed a dvd writer in its
place. I installed the software that came with the dvd writer. My cdrom will
no longer read any disc I put in. It tells me to insert a disc in drive E
when there is already one there. I have checked in properties and 'this
device is working properly'.

 

[Kath Adams]

Hope someone can help...I had a cd-rom/dvd player installed as well
as a cd writer. I have just taken out the cd writer and installed a
dvd writer in its place. I installed the software that came with the
dvd writer. My cdrom will no longer read any disc I put in. It tells
me to insert a disc in drive E when there is already one there. I
have checked in properties and 'this device is working properly'.

Just a thought - did you make sure the jumper settings were the same on
the new DVD writer as they were on the old one you took out?

 

[Guest]

thanks Kath for your reply. No, I didn't change anything. I just took the
cables out of the cd writer and replaced them in the dvd writer. But this
writer seems to be ok, its the cd rom drive that won't read disks, and I
never touched anything on this?

 

[Guest]

I have installed 'Belarc Advisor' and run the programme to show my cd rom
drives. It is the 'untouched' VOBID drive that will no longer read the cdroms
I insert? It worked perfectly before I installed the dvd writer in place of
the cd writer??

 

[Guest]

TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B [CD-ROM drive]
VOBID InstantDrive CD SCSI CdRom Device [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

ST380011A [Hard drive] (80.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 3JVD4JT8, rev 8.01, SMART
Status: Healthy

Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti [Display adapter]
Samsung 15.7 [Monitor] (15.7"vis, s/n HJFR904775, September 2001)
Bus Adapters Multimedia
VOB InstantDrive Controller
OPTi 82C861 PCI to USB Open Host Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller

 

[Kath Adams]

If it were me, then I'd check that the jumpers are the same on the old
CD as they are on the new DVD. You've probably altered the sequence of
master/slave and confused things.
Kath

 

[Guest]

thanks a million Kath, 'twas the jumpers.....I'm learning!
Gail (dixie)

 

[Kath Adams]

Glad all is now well, and thanks for posting back.
(Been there, done that, got the t-shirt - which is why I suggested this
as a solution!)
Regards
Kath