when I click on d:\ in my computor i gat a message saying windows cannot find the path or file you may not have the approprite permission to use this facility how do I correct this

I hope someone can give me some insite as to what is happened, A few days ago I turn the computor on and 3 programs did not load correctly, Norton, Adaptect aaand zone alarm. The day befor no errors or any problems and system shut down fine. I atried to do a scan disk thinking I had error and was...

MY CD ROM HAS STOPPED WORKING. WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR?

- Using an old (old yes, but still the original) LG CD-RW CED 8083B - Compaq Athalon 850 PC - WinME All of a sudden, when viewing information on a CD-RW, I cannot take or remove a file off of the CD, I get "invalid MS DOS Function" What gives? Any help would be most appreciated. - Nomad

my cd rom isnt being read... i just formatted the computer... installed Win Me and then i noticed that my D: drive was missing and couldnt be reached... how can i get it back? e-mail me at with your thoughts... or post here.. thanks

I have a Dell computer with Windows ME system. The hard drive was corrupted by a virus/trojan. I have wiped the hard drive, but now the CD Rom drive (d:) is not recognized. Therefore, I can't reinstall Windows. Any suggestions. PLEASE HELP!!!!!! Frustrated Little Dea

Hello. I used to have a Zip100 drive(D) that I uninstalled. I have a CD Rom (E) and a RW CD(F). When double clicking on my computer I still see the zip100(D) and CDR(E) is missing. The weired thing is that when right clicking on the zip100(D) and choosing Eject it opens up the CDR(E) that the icon...

I do not know what is wrong with my cd/dvd rom drive on my computer,but I just want to know if I am able to fix it. I have a Hp XV976 (bought direct from the store) and it has been running well for five years now. But the cd/dvd rom drive is acting up. Sometimes it will work fine and the computer...

I have just upgraded to Windows ME and now my cdrom is not working. I can not find my CD drive anywhere on my computer. Can I fix this? What do I do? I have tried adding new hardware it doesn't help, I have tried reloading WindowsME and that doesn't help. I have tried disconnecting and...

My cd-rom won't work--I have changed cables,put in a different cd-rom, reinstalled, ect...still nothing!! How do I reboot in safe mode to do some trouble shooting-- Thanks for the help

I went into bios by hitting delete several while booting anyways accidently I hit enter while looking at pci devices under advanced tab and there are irc numbers like 3 5 and 11 I have a compaq 5000 a series can anyone tell me the configuration of the numbers oh and a diable and enable are there...

What do I do if I try to copy a cd, it says it cannot read the data. How come it can't read if it can run on my computer.

I got this error while I was trying to make a data cd.It said "illegal mode for this track". It is weird that I get this error because I noticed something. I can burn data cds with regular CDRs and I also notice that only one brand of CD-RWs burn data cds. The other brands of CD-RWs that I have...

I have to burners. One is CD and the other is CD/DVD multiformat. Problem is that although I can see all CD's fine in the first LiteOn, the CD/DVD will only see DVD's. This is looking from Explorer and from Sonic's software. I need help as I'm out of ideas. Norman

Help please....I am running a Compaq 5102us with ME. I had to do a system restore a little while back and now my F: drive (cd writer) is completely gone. I tried using the troubleshooter programs but they are no help. Thanks

My (Fdrive) Philips CDD4801 CD-R/RW, Firmware revision: C2,1 is opening and closing on it own. Can anyone advise what I need to do to correct this? Thanks, Pam

how can i get my system to recognise my liteon ltr-48125s cd-rewriter? at the moment it thinks it is a basic cd-rom

Hi Have just run Adaware & Spybot and cleaned out Temp files etc but now ME does not see the CD-ROM. Very strange because it doesn't show in device manager either although was working before. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help. Mike.

I am having a problem locating the drive for my CD-ROM. If I click on My Computer, it does not appear in the list. Only my floppy drive (A) and hard drive (C) appear. I have tried going through my Device Manager to reinstall the drive, but it does not appear in that list as an option to uninstall...

After shutting my computer down for a few hours today and rebooting, my cd-rom drive would not work so I looked in My Computer and it is not showing up. I tried rebooting several times and watching as things loaded and the drive never showed up. As a matter of fact I thought the hard drive wasn't...