Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, o

[Guest]

Just wondered if anyone has seen this before.

Don't know what has happened but on Sunday suddenly both my external USB
CD-Rom and Internal CD Rom drives
on my laptop suddenly stopped reading cd-rom disks containing data.
Audio cds play fine but any data discs such as backups, games or software
discs result
in the same message if browsed in explorer:-

Windows cannot read from this disk. The disk might be corrupted, or it could
be using a format that is not compatible with Windows.

I have re-installed drivers, been through google but nothing I could find or
do made a difference.
I did a virus scan with f-prot and a spyware scan with spy-doctor but
nothing helped.

I'd be gratefull if anyone has any ideas what do to.

I also removed the USB cd-rom drive and plugged it into myother laptop and
it worked fine.

Very Frustrating.

 

[Guest]

I was afraid you were going to say this-

I also removed the USB cd-rom drive and plugged it into myother laptop and
it worked fine.

Something this sudden, without mention of your changing settings or
installing new software, can often mean hardware problems. You might try
hooking to your desktop machine and doing a drive image, then reformatting
and reinstalling XP, but it's just a distant chance that something important
might be broken in software, especially since you say you refreshed the
drivers (including the ATAPI drivers?).

You might check in the Device Manager to see if there's any sign of trouble.
Then have it do a hardware rescan (with the drive(s) hooked up) and see what
it shows.

 

[golfdon]

I am having the same problem after uninstalling Norton Systemworks.
Now, my floppy and both CD-ROM drives are not able to read any disks.
Does anyone know if a reinstall of Windows XP over the top of the
current Windows will repair the drivers? Seems like this message has
been seen by a number of people, but no real definitive answer???

 

[Guest]

Oh, I'm sure there are answers, but probably not one single answer for every
situation that can cause this. In any case, there's usually one last resort-
reinstall a clean copy of Windows. It may not be the best, but if something
used to work, it's obviously going to cure the problem. Unless it's due to
hardware. Not likely in your case. Before you jump off the Cliffs of
Reinstallation, you might give a registry repair software tool a try.
Uninstalling software, especially a Norton product, can break things that are
fixable. There are lots of those repair tools out there.