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I need some help with CD drives (Vanity)
February 12, 2005
Posted on 02/12/2005 1:50:43 PM PST by Howlin
I put a music CD that came with a book into my computer last night, played, and now my computer won't recognize either my CD or my CD writer.
I've tried everything; Norton, Restore, rebooting.
Does anybody have any suggestions about what I might try now?
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Focus Software
KEYWORDS: help; notcomutersavy
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To: Revel
And I am willing to be there is no such thing as rolling that one back.yes, you can remove it and restore original config.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:09:43 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
To: Revel
Did Howlin just install sp2 and then have problems? SP2 does cause problems.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:09:56 PM PST
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
To: Revel
I don't know, I have been spending all my time working with Linux, Xandros, find it easier than chasing strange XP problems..... and searching for the latest piece of malware....
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:10:29 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: SeaBiscuit
I think she has had SP2 up....but was doing some kind of MS update last night, but had some difficulty with it....
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:12:07 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: SeaBiscuit
It has been operating for a while with it from what I gathered..
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:12:15 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
i think she said after the problem started. She was looking for a fix.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:13:13 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
To: Howlin
"Okay....put the CD Dell sent me with Reinstallation CD MS Windows XP Professional in one of the CD drives and reboot?"
Yes, I would boot from the XP Pro (Dell) reinstall disc. I had this EXACT same problem with my E: (burner) drive a couple months back.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:13:59 PM PST
by
jdm
(Stockhausen, Kagel, Xenakis -- world capitals or avant-garde composers?)
To: Cold Heat
It is still possible. I have seen CD rom drives fail and cause a yellow exclamation point or "CD ROM DRIVE IS NOT ACCESSABLE" error in win98. The first is very rare, but I have seen it. I admit to not being well versed in XP. But I think you are all on the right track about using the Install disk. I Imagine that DEll would have some kind of warning message before it started writing to the hard drive. They have to assume that someone is going try the CD even if they have no reason to.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:14:05 PM PST
by
Revel
To: Cold Heat; SeaBiscuit; Revel; Howlin; dennisw
If she hoses the system , we'll never hear from her again....
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:14:24 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Cold Heat
We might not have solved Howlin's problem yet, but I'm sure learning a lot!!! FReepers are an amazing group.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:14:46 PM PST
by
Magnolia
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To: Revel
yes, a selection screen pops up and gives you some options before it does anything.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:15:39 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
To: Cold Heat
"yes, you can remove it and restore original config."
Thats good.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:15:49 PM PST
by
Revel
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
OK. It may very well be something that happened at windows update, especially if the update did not finish or Howlin elected to install updated drivers. Updated drivers from Microsoft often cause problems which is why I only update my drivers from the original Hardware Vendor.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:15:56 PM PST
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and the rest can go to hell.)
To: jdm
Yes, I would boot from the XP Pro (Dell) reinstall disc. I had this EXACT same problem with my E: (burner) drive a couple months back.OK, someone with a Dell might be more useful than the rest of us.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:15:58 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:16:35 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
To: SeaBiscuit
"Did Howlin just install sp2 and then have problems? SP2 does cause problems."
Yep, problems with SP2... especially if you're using SBC Yahoo! I initially had problems getting SP2 to "take," but uninstalled and reinstalled THREE TIMES and the third time was the charm. Shouldn't have to be that difficult, of course, but it was, unfortunately.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:17:01 PM PST
by
jdm
(Stockhausen, Kagel, Xenakis -- world capitals or avant-garde composers?)
To: Howlin
Go to Device Manager. Assuming you have a DVD Rom Drive, right click on properties and be sure it says REGION 1 which is the US. My hubby's got altered and had same problem you seem to be having.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:17:13 PM PST
by
StarFan
To: SeaBiscuit
I am not sure how long ago she installed it. I gathered from comments here that it was pretty recently.
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:17:47 PM PST
by
Revel
To: jdm
I had this EXACT same problem with my E: (burner) drive a couple months back.Any idea what might have caused the problem....a bad update from MS????
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:18:35 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: StarFan
sure it says REGION 1 Now that is a new one on me!
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posted on
02/12/2005 5:19:14 PM PST
by
Cold Heat
(What are fears but voices awry?Whispering harm where harm is not and deluding the unwary. Wordsworth)
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