Re: Windows Explorer cannot see music or data discs loaded into...
- From: Sharon F <sharonfDEL@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 08:56:59 -0500
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:56:01 -0700, Al wrote:
Thanks. I had done the second suggestion initially, i.e. set my burner
(Roxio Drag-To-Disk) to use the option "read on anything" all along.
However, even some commercial CD are not "loaded". Another intresting data
point, and one which makes the drives at least usable, is that if I
right-click and display the properties, the drive will spin up and read the
CD. I discovered that this afternoon while still "messing around" with the
problem. I also find that some (but not all) software distribution disks
will spin up and auto exec since I tried to reload Roxio in the event that it
was the problem. Of course, during the reload, I had a full blue-screen
crash followed by one of those "Windows won't start" screens which I have now
just overcome by a restore point taken before removing the Roxio burner.
Ain't computers fun?
Observe the system carefully for a bit. Since you can get the drives to
respond by right clicking on them, this may be related to power management.
Check settings in Control Panel> Power Management. Even with the "always
on" power scheme the default setting allows some components to sleep.
If drives are allowed to sleep - well, the optical drives are connected to
the same IDE controllers. It may be that the instances where things work is
when the drives have recently been "activated" (they're not asleep) and the
times they are not working are when they are slow to return from sleep
state. Sometimes this can be rectified with a BIOS update or at least
minimize the inconvenience by adjusting the sleep settings for "drives."
For the blue screen error, look in Event Viewer to see if the failed
startup was recorded and, if so, which driver was mentioned.
--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
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