FJ here - hoping someone might have some input with respect to Windows
XP not reading a CD Rom. In addition to knowing the driver is working
and the O.S. does see the CD Rom, yet won't read any disk, I've gone to
Device Manager and properties of the CD Rom and there are places within
the "Properties Tab" where I read to try and uncheck "Enable digital CD
audio for the CD-Rom," save it, and go back and re-check it and it would
work (at least for someone). I have a strong feeling it has something
to do with Windows XP itself, perhaps the registry??? I've uninstalled
and rebooted and always, the drive is found and installed with house
driver. I've disabled and re-enabled CD-Rom drive. I've changed drive
letters to no avail. This is a Windows XP Pro box. it simply says,
"Please insert a disk into drive D."







whiskeyjack Wrote:
> Holy Cow, what a name!! What nationality is that?
> Believe me, I wish I was in a position to tell you what
> you should do.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Same to me. I bought a new cd-rw Samsung 52-32-52 for
> replacing an old one,
> cd-rw 4-2-4. After that it doesn't read any cd. So I use
> another HD which
> intalled WindowsME. It's working well. Then I changed to
> WindowsXP again, it
> still doesn't work. I checked driver, jumper, pair and
> bios. Everything
> looks fine. What should I do?
> Chaiyot S.
>
> "whiskeyjack" anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com
> wrote in message
> news:05e001c424b1$8331d930$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> As I've said before I booted my pc from the cd-rom IN
> WINDOWS 98 using a resource cd. I ran a 32 bit
> diagnostics test and the DRIVE passed everything. That
> tells me the drive ain't the problem. This is why I
> disregarded your original suggestion.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I'm intrigued that you spent "much time
> troubleshooting"
> (your words) but never took the time to do the basic
> tests
> I suggested. They would have taken you ten minutes,
> and would have told you plenty about the cause of your
> problem.
>
> I note that your problem "went away" by itself. If it
> did so
> on its own accord then there is a high probability
> that
> it
> will come back. Intermittent problems don't disappear;
> they usually return at the most inconvenient time.
>
>
> "whiskeyjack" anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com
> wrote in message
> news:02d301c4243c$051ef890$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> It's odd your problem began a week or so ago as
> well.
> I
> have spent much time troubleshooting and
> communicating
> with online techs. I think I've been given all the
> advice there is to give on the subject. Some I used
> and
> some I felt was too drastic. What it came down to
> was
> that I believed there was nothing wrong with the
> drive
> itself. Shortly after my last post I tried using it
> and
> it worked, it read. After I got home from school I
> tried
> again and - happy day - it's good to go. Also, the
> sound
> from my speakers has improved. It's like my pc had
> the
> flu and needed time to ride it out. I hope your
> problem
> rides it out as well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> This is happening to my CD as well. It stopped
> working
> in
> the last week or so. Making me crazy. Have tried
> everything, except to reformat my drive.
> Fortunately
> md
> CD-RW is working. I'll go balistic if it fails
> two.
>
> I didn't try to read from DOS ... will try that
> when
> I'm
> home. I suspect it's the generic driver or
> something.
> It
> was working fine. It opens, closes ... starts
> to "appear"
> to read the drive but it doesn't. I tried a disk
> clearner ... to no avail.
>
> I posted my own topic on this, but there are no
> responses,
> but lots of similar postings.
>
> I hope MS reads these numerous postings on the CD
> issue.
> I wrote to the manufacturer of my CD, but haven't
> heard
> anything back.
> Diana
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Guys, my Dell came with a resource cd. I used it
> to
> reboot my pc from the cd-rom (in Windows 98) and
> run
> the
> 32 bit Dell Diagnostics. The drive passed all
> tests.
> Based on that alone wouldn't the problem be in
> Windows?
> Thanks for your input.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" I.can@fly.com wrote in message
> news:efmJaq6IEHA.364@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
> "Jeremy Poynton"
> j.poyntonREMOVE@THISblueyonder.co.uk wrote in
> message
> news:%23tUNof5IEHA.2948@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" I.can@fly.com wrote in
> message
> news:eEo7P64IEHA.2972@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> You now need to be more specific:
> - Is Windows unable to read any CD, or just
> some
> CDs?
> - Have you tried original CDs (rather than
> copied
> CDs)?
> - Can you play music CDs?
> - What exactly is the message you get when
> you
> try
> to
> copy a certain file from the CD to the
> hard
> disk?
> - When you boot with your Win98 boot disk,
> can
> you
> copy that same file to floppy disk?
>
> At this stage it is useful to keep your
> options
> wide
> open rather than to automatically blame
> Windows
> for
> your problem.
>
> Fair enough - though if you look at the sheer
> volume
> of posts in this
> newsgroup re CD/DVD drive problems, it does
> suggest
> that they screwed
> up
> BIG time WRT such drives in XP. Indeed, when
> I
> finally got XP to
> recognised
> a new drive I installed, it then totally
> refused
> to
> recognise ANY discs
> in
> the drive at all. In the end, I removed the
> drive.
> And yes, installed
> into
> a
> W98 machine, it worked first time, and every
> time.
>
> JP
>
> I'm afraid we can't help you any further until
> you
> are
> prepared to carry out the tests I suggested
> before.
> I said, amongst other things, to boot your PC
> with a
> Win98 disk, and to copy a file from CD to
> floppy
> disk.
> Instead you installed the CD drive in a Win98
> PC
> and tested it there. By doing so, you changed
> all
> the parameters: motherboard, disk controller,
> BIOS settings, ribbon cable. Your test reveals
> nothing other than your CD drive working fine
> when
> installed in a different PC.
>
> Over to you!
>
> Umm - wrong respondent; I was merely adding some
> thoughts on the original
> poster's problem, and generalising somewhat in
> noting
> that the volume of
> CD/DVD drive problems posted in this newsgroup
> suggests
> some deep down
> problems in how they are handled in XP. Do you
> see
> the
> same in the 98/2K
> newsgroups ? No ? Why ? Probably because MS did
> it
> right
> there. They sure
> didn't in XP, or why else are there so many
> problems
> with them posted here ?
>
> JP
>
>
> .
>
>
>
> .
>


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