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Old June 22nd 06, 06:04 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.multimedia
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I've had a long standing problem with my CD drive in Win98 SE.

It started when I installed an additional CD-RW drive, I could no longer
play any music CDs. Annoying, but it didn't bother me too much because I was
able to use all other CD types.

But a few weeks ago I tried to install new CD writing software (Easy CD
Creator). After restarting Windows, the system crashed on startup. I needed
to start Windows in Safe Mode and uninstall the new program in order to get
Windows to restart at all.

So now I can't read ANY cd placed in my drives. Windows will recognize a
disc is in the drive (doesn't give a "no disc in drive" message) but it will
not display any files on the disc.

Any suggestions? Remember, I don't have access to my Windows installation CD.
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Old June 24th 06, 12:16 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.multimedia
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Easy CD Creator has replaced one of the system files with its own version.
Uninstalling the software does not undo the replacement. You should remove
the problem devices from device manager and allow Windows to re-install
them. However, without your Windows 98 installation CD this won't work
properly. You can probably get a replacement CD on eBay (although it's a
while since I looked, and they may be scarce).
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I've had a long standing problem with my CD drive in Win98 SE.

It started when I installed an additional CD-RW drive, I could no longer
play any music CDs. Annoying, but it didn't bother me too much because I
was
able to use all other CD types.

But a few weeks ago I tried to install new CD writing software (Easy CD
Creator). After restarting Windows, the system crashed on startup. I
needed
to start Windows in Safe Mode and uninstall the new program in order to
get
Windows to restart at all.

So now I can't read ANY cd placed in my drives. Windows will recognize a
disc is in the drive (doesn't give a "no disc in drive" message) but it
will
not display any files on the disc.

Any suggestions? Remember, I don't have access to my Windows installation
CD.



 




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