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cdrw drive not active in Windows ME system P-4 1300 w rambus 768 mb memory
hello all:
Recently running into probem with cdrw drive. It is not recognizing any of recorded / or even fresh cdrw discs. Only response upon insertion of any disc and attempt is made to access contents: "please insert disc" etc. Recently I have begun using CC Cleaner to clean out invalid reg entries and other stuff. Have run regscan with no errors showing. Have been using Roxio Easy CD Creator - reinstalled same. Also tried removing cdrw drive in Device Mgr - but after deleting drive and re-starting windows there is no notice of new hardware found when re-booting. Has registry cleaner somehow screwed up communication between drive and system - ? Is it just a drive failure? Drive opens /function light is amber - accepts cdrw disc / light goes grn hear a whir - then goes dark and although drive is again present in device mgr - it does not read any disc. Help? I do have an older Plextor cdrw and thinking of installing ? Suggestions? Thnx. Barry |
cdrw drive not active in Windows ME system P-4 1300 w rambus 7
Mike's suggestion seems correct. I recommend CCleaner for removing stubborn
programs in their entirety. As a registry cleaner, not a good idea. -- I mastered Wordstar graphics! "Mike M" wrote: Has registry cleaner somehow screwed up communication between drive and system - ? Quite possibly but equally possible is that the drive has simply failed, not uncommon for a machine running Win Me which might suggest a drive that is 5 or more years old. If you boot to DOS using a Win Me boot floppy is the drive detected and can you "see" the contents of a data disk such as a Win Me install disk when using the DOS DIR command? -- Mike Maltby bardot861 wrote: hello all: Recently running into probem with cdrw drive. It is not recognizing any of recorded / or even fresh cdrw discs. Only response upon insertion of any disc and attempt is made to access contents: "please insert disc" etc. Recently I have begun using CC Cleaner to clean out invalid reg entries and other stuff. Have run regscan with no errors showing. Have been using Roxio Easy CD Creator - reinstalled same. Also tried removing cdrw drive in Device Mgr - but after deleting drive and re-starting windows there is no notice of new hardware found when re-booting. Has registry cleaner somehow screwed up communication between drive and system - ? Is it just a drive failure? Drive opens /function light is amber - accepts cdrw disc / light goes grn hear a whir - then goes dark and although drive is again present in device mgr - it does not read any disc. Help? I do have an older Plextor cdrw and thinking of installing ? Suggestions? Thnx. Barry |
cdrw drive not active in Windows ME system P-4 1300 w rambus 768 mb memory
Hi Mike:
Able to boot to DOS. Chose option with CD support and a drive letter was assigned to my CD drive. Using the DOS command C:\WINDOWS DIR was able to get a listing of content of that folder. Similarly able to get a list of content of A:\DIR - a breakdown of files on floppy boot disc. But - could not get any info from E:\DIR. Only an error message. Previously recorded info was on a CDRW in that drive and I also tried a cd disc with previously recorded data - also got error notice. Does this mean more likely problem is with the drive as opposed to Operating System? thanks again. Barry "Mike M" wrote in message ... Has registry cleaner somehow screwed up communication between drive and system - ? Quite possibly but equally possible is that the drive has simply failed, not uncommon for a machine running Win Me which might suggest a drive that is 5 or more years old. If you boot to DOS using a Win Me boot floppy is the drive detected and can you "see" the contents of a data disk such as a Win Me install disk when using the DOS DIR command? -- Mike Maltby bardot861 wrote: hello all: Recently running into probem with cdrw drive. It is not recognizing any of recorded / or even fresh cdrw discs. Only response upon insertion of any disc and attempt is made to access contents: "please insert disc" etc. Recently I have begun using CC Cleaner to clean out invalid reg entries and other stuff. Have run regscan with no errors showing. Have been using Roxio Easy CD Creator - reinstalled same. Also tried removing cdrw drive in Device Mgr - but after deleting drive and re-starting windows there is no notice of new hardware found when re-booting. Has registry cleaner somehow screwed up communication between drive and system - ? Is it just a drive failure? Drive opens /function light is amber - accepts cdrw disc / light goes grn hear a whir - then goes dark and although drive is again present in device mgr - it does not read any disc. Help? I do have an older Plextor cdrw and thinking of installing ? Suggestions? Thnx. Barry |
cdrw drive not active in Windows ME system P-4 1300 w rambus 768 mb memory
Barry,
Does this mean more likely problem is with the drive as opposed to Operating System? In a word, yes. At this point I'd be shopping for a replacement drive. Fortunately they're cheap nowadays unlike a few years ago and a replacement is likely to also be faster. When shopping make sure that you buy a drive that uses the correct interface for your system which for older machines is more likely to be IDE/ATAPI rather than the newer SATA. -- Mike Maltby bardot861 wrote: Hi Mike: Able to boot to DOS. Chose option with CD support and a drive letter was assigned to my CD drive. Using the DOS command C:\WINDOWS DIR was able to get a listing of content of that folder. Similarly able to get a list of content of A:\DIR - a breakdown of files on floppy boot disc. But - could not get any info from E:\DIR. Only an error message. Previously recorded info was on a CDRW in that drive and I also tried a cd disc with previously recorded data - also got error notice. Does this mean more likely problem is with the drive as opposed to Operating System? thanks again. |
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