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