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

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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 my other laptop and
it worked fine.
 
G

Guest

Hi.
Yes I have but no real help.
I am seeing lots of posts now with the folk who have the same kind of problems
but no one seems to know what the cause is.
To be honest I have installed no new software recently and change no settings.
It just seems that all of a sudden my internal Matsui CD-DVD drive and
external USB PikaOne Rip Cd-ROM burner all report the same error as above.

The wierd thing is that I can play audio cds on both through media player.
I can rip audio cds on both using media player and i can burn to both
using Nero but neither will show me data files in explorer or at cmd level.

Ian
 

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