WinXP Doesn't See New CDs

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This is annoying & I never had this problem with Windows 98...

The computer is 100% virus free & spyware free. I boot WinXP with a CD in the drive.
Without even looking at the CD, I can remove the CD & put in a new one - but, WinXP
keeps reporting that the first CD is still there! It shows top-level files from the
first CD, and will even let me read text files. The name of the CD in Windows Explorer
is the name of the first CD. If I try to run a file that I know is on the second CD from
Start > Run, it says file not found.

I have to reboot for WinXP to see the new CD.

How do I fix this annoying problem???

Thanks!
 
Try pressing the 'F5' key when in Windows Explorer. This should refresh the
displayed information.

JS
 
I think press F5 can help you. Windows have not refresh automaticlly in
time, you have to do it manually
 
Bill said:
This is annoying & I never had this problem with Windows 98...

The computer is 100% virus free & spyware free. I boot WinXP with a CD
in the drive.
Without even looking at the CD, I can remove the CD & put in a new
one - but, WinXP
keeps reporting that the first CD is still there! It shows top-level
files from the
first CD, and will even let me read text files. The name of the CD in
Windows Explorer
is the name of the first CD. If I try to run a file that I know is on
the second CD from
Start > Run, it says file not found.

I have to reboot for WinXP to see the new CD.

How do I fix this annoying problem???

Thanks!
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Hah -- been down this path and I *think* I have figured out
what the problem is (at least with the ones I was working with).
If the two CD's have the same label on them, windows seems
too stupid to figure out the directories may be different.
I ran into this when I used the same labels for a set of DVD's
with backup images on them. Pressing F5 or view->refresh
did NOT get the correct directory. Putting the disk in another
drive read correctly. What I did find that would get it to
read it correctly (at least where the labels were the same) was
to put a different disk in with an entirely different label, then
put the second disk back in again and voila -- now it read
the directory correctly. XP-Pro, SP2, most of the patches
installed.

mikey
 
Bill said:
This is annoying & I never had this problem with Windows 98...

The computer is 100% virus free & spyware free. I boot WinXP with a CD in
the drive.
Without even looking at the CD, I can remove the CD & put in a new one -
but, WinXP
keeps reporting that the first CD is still there! It shows top-level files
from the
first CD, and will even let me read text files. The name of the CD in
Windows Explorer
is the name of the first CD. If I try to run a file that I know is on the
second CD from
Start > Run, it says file not found.

I have to reboot for WinXP to see the new CD.

How do I fix this annoying problem???

Thanks!
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Do you do a software eject of the CD?
If you don't, XP does not know that you have merely yanked the CD out.
Thus, after you have yanked it out, the directory infomation is stale.
Jim
 
...
Do you do a software eject of the CD?
If you don't, XP does not know that you have merely yanked the CD out.
Thus, after you have yanked it out, the directory infomation is stale.
Jim
Click to expand...

Interesting... thanks!
 
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