No Autorun on Data CD

[Guest]

Earlier I posted the problem that my CD's do autorun, except for data-CD's.
Now it turns out dat some data-CD's do autorun, while others don't. This
happens in the same drive, irrespective of the CD-type (R or RW). Any ideas
or useful links?

 

[Guest]

Here are some basic facts about autorun:
http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm

You may also want to check your registry to see if it's enabled just to be
sure:
Browse into:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEM
CurrentControlSet
Services
Cdrom
Double click “Autorun†make sure it is set to "1."

GLuck!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your reply.

Audio cd's and data cd's with autorun.inf are doing all right. Besides, all
autorun parameters are on 'enable', so the problem should be located
elsewhere.

 

[Jonny]

As a similar question along the same lines, was wondering why some boot CDs
are always found bootable, and some only sometimes are found bootable by the
bios. Example: XP install CD Sometimes found bootable, sometimes not.

 

[Malke]

As a similar question along the same lines, was wondering why some
boot CDs are always found bootable, and some only sometimes are found
bootable by the
bios. Example: XP install CD Sometimes found bootable, sometimes
not.

All XP CD's are bootable. Some earlier MS operating system disks -
Win98/ME were bootable because they were tailored to be so by the OEM
(HP, Dell, etc.). Retail Win9x/ME install disks were not.

If you have come across an XP CD that wasn't bootable, it wasn't the CD;
it was that the computer wasn't set to boot from the CD drive.

Malke

 

[Jonny]

All XP CD's are bootable. Some earlier MS operating system disks -
Win98/ME were bootable because they were tailored to be so by the OEM
(HP, Dell, etc.). Retail Win9x/ME install disks were not.

If you have come across an XP CD that wasn't bootable, it wasn't the CD;
it was that the computer wasn't set to boot from the CD drive.

Malke
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Yep, knew that.

What I meant was the same physical XP install CD, sometimes bios finds it
bootable, sometimes not.

DVD R/W is cleaned regularly. Don't have the autorun problem noted by OP
though.

 

[Plato]

As a similar question along the same lines, was wondering why some boot CDs
are always found bootable, and some only sometimes are found bootable by the
bios. Example: XP install CD Sometimes found bootable, sometimes not.

Even if you have a bootable cd, and a pc that can handle bootable cds,
and a new cdrom drive, sometimes it just doesnt work. Why? It's not yet
perfected.