CD-ROMs quit reading in Windows 2000

[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

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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

Boot the machine with a Win98 disk from www.bootdisk.com,
then see if you can read the CDs. If you can then the problem
lies with Win2000. If you can't then then you have a hardware
problem.

 

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Boot the machine with a Win98 disk from www.bootdisk.com,
then see if you can read the CDs. If you can then the problem
lies with Win2000. If you can't then then you have a hardware
problem.

Had the same problem, more or less, Two drives stopped reading
CDs. Bought a new drive, install it, burned one CD with it, few
days later it too stopped reading CDs. See my tred further down.

Although I accept Pegasus advice which says : H/W problem
because I can't read CD when I start from Win 98 floppy, but I
can't determine which H/W problem to fix it ? The IDE cable
tested fine for connectivity.

PS: Few months back due to virus infection I wanted to clean my HD
to re-install W2K. At that time W2K couldn't install. I had to install
Win ME, then re-installed W2K !!!

To go back to Win ME, I can boot from floppy, format the HD, but
there is no guarantee the PC will reboot from the original Win Me
or W2K CDs.

 

[Guest]

Boot the machine with a Win98 disk from www.bootdisk.com,
then see if you can read the CDs. If you can then the problem
lies with Win2000. If you can't then then you have a hardware
problem.


.

The CD-ROM drive was working just fine before this
episode, but the CD-R that I put into it/them (both
machines) seemed to halt both from reading anything from
the ROM drives.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

The CD-ROM drive was working just fine before this
episode, but the CD-R that I put into it/them (both
machines) seemed to halt both from reading anything from
the ROM drives.

And what's the result when you boot with the Win98 boot disk?