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Old July 9th 04, 06:05 PM
Ingeborg
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Default CD-Rom & CD-RW see contents as blank!

"Patter" wrote in
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A strange problem.

I attempted to install a D-Link USB 2.0 PCI card & on boot
WIN 98SE did not see new hardware as expected. Inserted D-
Link CD & both my LG CD burner & generic CD-rom showed the
CD as blank. But in Properties the Volume correctly showed
the name & size of the contents.

Tried other CDs, including ones burned on the LG....same
results.

On the assumption that the USB card may have caused
problem...removed it, rebooted...same!!
Removed & reinstalled CD-ROM & burner...same!
Reinstalled IDE controller...same!
Checked for viruses, trojans, spyware, adware...same!

Temporarily connected old hard drive that had been in
system previously....both CD-ROMs worked fine!!!
Since both CD-ROMs work, I'm assuming that that something
was corrupted...but what?
I even burned a CD and I could access the files on other
computers, but not on the one that burned it.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

P.S. This has been going on for more than a week & on some
days(I shut down each day) 1 CD drive will "see" my Win
98SE installation CD....But not today!!


Can you boot from the installation CD? If so, and you choose 'boot to dos
with cdrom', can you access the CD?