Device CDROM 0 Has a Bad Block

[Chad Harris]

Normally, I wouldn't cross post but I believe this is a situation where
there might be multiple causes from the KBs I'm seeing and information I'm
reading, so I thought I would profit from input from 3 groups. When I saw
the bad block errors, I reflexly ran chkdsk r/ on each drive, and defragged
the MFT and Paging file. I kept getting these errors.


An error was detected on device \Device\CD ROM0 during a paging operation.

The device\Device\CDRom0 has a bad block.

I was getting an error when I put in a CD for Omni Page Pro 12 (no others).
I had trouble installing two SPs that I remedied when a message from Event
Viewer said there was a file missing called wizard32.dat. I had backed up
the file, so I copied the file into the OPP folders and installation went
fine.

What concerns me are the causes for "bad block" and the difficulty in
getting any information on this. I don't know because a CD-ROM is being
referenced as well as the paging file whether this refers to a hardware or
software issue.

Also do the numbers for Event Errors--this one included 51, have any
significance.

Thanks,

Chad Harris

 

[Keith]

What concerns me are the causes for "bad block" and the difficulty in
getting any information on this. I don't know because a CD-ROM is being
referenced as well as the paging file whether this refers to a hardware or
software issue.

See my follow-up to the guy with the DVD problem in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

You can pick a up CD-ROM for $10 new so you might want to
just replace the drive or you can upgrade to a DVD or CD-RW.

 

[David Candy]

Cd is stuffed. Try cleaning it in case it's just grease from a finger. The code part (as there is an icon part, a menu part) of program files become part of the swap file. As it never changes there is no point writing it to the main swap file. It can be read back from the original file.