Startup Help Plz!!!

[Arron Knight]

whenever i try to startup it slows down whenever it comes
up to detecting secondary dirve, it takes soo long and at
te same time my cd-rom drive wont read anything, windows
wont even detect it :S, plz help urgent!

 

[Kelly]

Hi Aaron,

For your second issue:

Save the file below to your hard drive. Navigate to where you saved it and
double click the file. A confirmation dialog will appear when the script is
done. You may need to reboot for the change to take effect.

Restore CD/DVD in Explorer
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/xp_cd_dvd_fix.vbs

 

[Kelly]

How to Troubleshoot Hardware and Software Driver Problems
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q322205