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Old July 10th 04, 12:20 PM
glee
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Default CD-Rom & CD-RW see contents as blank!

How are you looking at the contents of the CD (when you see it as blank)....are you
using Windows Explorer, My Computer, what?
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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"Patter" wrote in message
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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!!