Floppy Drive/CD-RW Problems

[Marco]

Until now, I don't think I have had reason to use my
floppy drive since upgrading to XP Home Edition.

When I tried to use it, it would not read a floppy disk.
I assumed the floppy drive had died and replaced it.

It's still not reading nor writing. It appears in my
drive list, the green light lights, but if I tried to
access a disk, I get an error message saying unable to
access-incorrect function.

Interestingly enought, I am also having another problem
with my CDR-W. After rebooting, I can access a CD ONCE.
If I attempt to access it a second time, it appears as
empty. If I reboot, I can access it ONCE without a
problem, but then must reboot again to re-acess it.

I've uninstalled it, reinstalled it, uninstalled the
drivers and reinstalled the drivers with no luck. My
Windows updates are all current.

Don't know if these two situations are connected.

I'm really frustrated and would appreciate any help !

Thanks !

 

[jess]

I am also experienceing problems similar to these wen I
insert a floppy it says the disc is not formated and when
i try to read a CD it shut the PC down, also the PC would
not start up for a while, thinking of doing a complete re
format of the C drive any one any idea of any other fixes
prior to this.

 

[tojesky]

Don't bother reformatting the drive and doing a
reinstall. I have the same problem and bit the bullet and
did a complete reinstall. It worked until I installed NERO
v5.

 

[Ed]

Having just fixed this problem myself, I've learned there are
basically two reasons why this might be happening.

One is that some CD burning software is the cause -- Microsoft has a
bulletin about old Roxio I think. Others have said the problem is
with InCD.

The second, and less obvious problem is with Norton Anti Virus (this
is what happened to me). If you boot up with it in Auto Protect mode
you can run into the problem where all drives (CD, floppy, USB) are
inaccessible except if there are media in them at startup. If you
change the media, the drives then become inaccessible. To fix this
all you need to do is reconfigure Norton to NOT start in Auto Protect
mode and reboot. Once you're booted up you can manually put Norton in
Auto Protect mode and your drives should still work. Annoying to
manually do at each startup, but at least you get your drives back.

Hope that helps.
-Ed