devices with removable storage

[DJ]

When I add a disk to either my floppy, cd-rw or cd-rom it
won't read them..... when I go to my computer and double
click the drive it dosen't read the disk that is in the
drive, what might be the problem for this?

 

[davetest]

When I add a disk to either my floppy, cd-rw or cd-rom it
won't read them..... when I go to my computer and double
click the drive it dosen't read the disk that is in the
drive, what might be the problem for this?

I don't know.
Have you done basic troubleshooting?
Look for any unusual status in the device manger?
Check for messages in the event viewer?
Look at the info in msinfo32?
etc,etc???

Dave

 

[DJ]

The error message that I get when I click on the drive
from my computer is - A:\ is not accessible. Incorrect
function.
As an example when I insert my xp disk into the cd-rw
drive and double click while in my computer it dosent
read any contents. Yet when I insert a cdrw disk of my
own it will read the contents

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[cimex]

Try inserting the XP CD into the CD-ROM drive, instead of the CD-RW drive.
What happens then?

Also, did these drives ever work in the past? Do you have current,
XP-compatible drivers installed for each?

The error message that I get when I click on the drive
from my computer is - A:\ is not accessible. Incorrect
function.
As an example when I insert my xp disk into the cd-rw
drive and double click while in my computer it dosent
read any contents. Yet when I insert a cdrw disk of my
own it will read the contents

.