cd rom drive will not read media

I was using my Roxio Easy CD Creator 3.5with no problem. After loading AOL 9, Roxio will no longer format CD. I get "invalid file fomate, Disc is bad" I've reloaded Roxio and deleted AOL and tried several brands with the sdame results, can there be another problem with windows that my also...

Somehow during my rebuild of my system the Icon that shows up for my CD drive now has a D-Link corporate logo icon that it mus have picked up when I was installing a network card. This is the icon for the drive that you see when you open "My Computer" and click on to open up the files on the drive....

I used to have two cd roms on my 98 (not se) machine. Now I have only one. It works just fine, (I can read/write). However, I also have a problem in making a new boot disk. And it wants some file that is not on the hard drive. So it asks for the original 98 cd. The problem is: when I put the...

I recorded some pictures on a fresh CD using a CD writer from a Computer. After writing I checked the contents . All pictures came perfect. But when the CD is put on my PC, only a few portion (about 25%) of the contents are seen.The recording is done using windows XP. I am using windows98. Again...

my cd drive will not load the recovery disk, but will load other cd's when i put it in, it starts to load, i can hear it, but then it stops and nothing happens, i use my cd cleaner, i know my disk is good cause i just used it 2 months ago and i put it back in its case and into my file cabnit. any...

neither cd drive appears on bootup. system record show history of drives, but neither one appears

My 98 box does not "see" the CD drive anymore. There is no letter assigned to it and when I put a CD into the player, nothing happens. Any help you offer is great. Arnie

Both of the DVD player and the CD Burner continue to spin and will not allow the computer to start up. It is like they are stuck. Then the computer will not turn off with the power switch (I have to pull the plug.) I can push the eject button and the DVD player will open but it immediately shuts...

I've got an older computer running Win98. When I try to play an audio CD it says that it can't find "Wmplayer.exe". (I searched the entire drive and I can't find it either.) I've got Winamp installed, if I start Winamp first, then I can play an audio CD. I suppose the file got dumped when Winamp...

1. My 98 bix does not "see" my CD player. There is no letter assigned to it, and when I put a CD into the player, nothing happens. 2. Why does defrag hang up? I try to run it, it shows some progress, then it dies again. Thanks for your help

Windows98 doesn't reconize my cd rom drive. When I bootup it appears in BIOS but is not reconized in windows.

How can I get my disc/cd, to load in my computer.(windows 98)?

How can i get a Second Edition CD rom upgrade

I get error message "F:\ is not accessible. Device is not ready". "F" is the CD ROM drive and used to work well. How shall I get it back to work?

I tried to Install Norton Anti Virus 2004 Professional. My system crashed. I was able to uninstall the bungled installation but since then I have a problem. MY CD ROM causes my PC to crash, sometimes even without a CD in the place when I close the drive the PC crashes, at other times it won't crash...

I get error message "F:\ is not accessible. Device is not ready". "F" is the CD ROM drive and was working well. How shall I get it back to work?

the CD ROM drive on my computer won't read any disks. A yellow light comes on under the drive, but that's it. I've tried more than one, just in case it was the disk itself, but I always get an error message. Either "Device not ready" or "No disk in drive." I looked in...

Problem with CD drive. Drive won't work. Message says, "Unable to access drive E: The drive is locked by a disk utility." System utilities says that CD drive is working correctly.

-----Original Message----- my computer no longer see's drive f or e and i cannot update without the cd drive. also at the same time i cannot run disk defrag. my system seems to be running but after hours it is still at o% coompleted. please help. . You need to shut down most things running....