Re: Windows cannot read from this disk.The disk might be corrupted

hi jimmy,

i would have guessed you'd have an answer !!! Would his PC have to be a Dell
??

Cheers and thanx again !!

R

"Jimmy S." wrote:

Hi richy rock,

| Any ideas, before I buy as new drive....

Absolutely! Test your old drive in your mate's PC. :-)

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richy rock Wrote:
=================
| Hi Jimmy,
|
| All done still exactly the same, have also bought other games and they work
| in mates PC but not in mine !
|
| Any ideas, before I buy as new drive....
|
| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi richy rock,
||
|| Try physically reinstalling the drive and it's cables to see if this problem
|| might just be a cabling or similar issue. Power down and unplug your PC
|| before removing the device, boot up without the device installed, power
|| down the PC and unplug is again, reinstall the device and power up again.
||
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|| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| richy rock Wrote:
|| =================
||| Hi Jimmy,
|||
||| My mate can launch the game on his pc,I can play games downloaded from the
||| web so I ghuess my drive is erm knackerd...most annoying.Any recommendations
||| for cd/dvd drives??
||| bugga..
|||
||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||
|||| Hi richy rock,
||||
|||| That type of error could mean the CD is corrupt... Check the CD
|||| and the CD Player. Clean both using a Cleaning Kit, and check for
|||| scratches on the CD. Try installing the game on another computer,
|||| if the game installs, the culprit is probably your CD ROM drive if it
|||| doesn't install then it's the CD, in which case you need to replace it.
||||
|||| Before replacing the CD, try copying it to your hard drive and then
|||| run the setup / installation program from there. To copy the CD go
|||| to My Computer, Right-Click the CD, Choose "Copy", then Right-
|||| Click on your Hard Drive, Choose "Paste".
||||
|||| Uninstall the game using Add-Remove programs before attempting
|||| to reinstall it. (Start / Control Panel / Add-Remove Programs).
||||
|||| Here are three basic troubleshooting steps which I recommend:
||||
|||| 1. To see if it's a software conflict: Temporarily disable Startup
|||| programs one at a time, starting with Firewall, Antivirus, and ad
|||| blockers using this utility: http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml
|||| or this method: http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_content.php
||||
|||| You can lookup what a program does before you disable it here:
|||| http://www.sysinfo.org/startuplist.php
||||
|||| 2. Run a virus scan at: http://housecall.antivirus.com and then
|||| install Windows Defender from: www.microsoft.com/spyware to
|||| remove any Spyware or Adware which could clog up your PC.
||||
|||| 3. Click My Computer / Rightclick the Drive & Choose Properties
|||| / Run the "Disk Cleanup..." / Next Click the "Tools" Tab and run
|||| the "Error-Checking" and "Defragmentation" utilities.
||||
|||| If nothing including those 3 steps have resolved the problem so far,
|||| here's more basic troubleshooting steps and information including:
|||| The Safedisc patch
|||| How to check CD for imperfections, and
|||| How to Disable Virtual CD rom drives which is described at:
|||| http://tinyurl.com/2387c (EA General Support Page) and also:
||||
|||| How to Troubleshoot Disc-Reading Issues
|||| Error Messages That May Be Caused by Disc-Reading Issues
|||| Troubleshoot Error Messages
|||| Examine the Disc
|||| Clean the Disc
|||| Test the Disc in a Different Drive
|||| Clean the Drive
|||| Test Disc Read with Copy or Xcopy
|||| Quit Unnecessary Software
|||| Switch the Drive Controller to DMA Mode, and
||||
|||| How to Troubleshoot DVD Error Messages is available in these articles: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=321641
|||| and
|||| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;248263
||||
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|||| Cheers, Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User
|||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||
|||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||| _________________________________________________________
||||
||||
|||| richy rock Wrote:
|||| =================
||||| Hi Jimmy,
|||||
||||| Been a while, sorry....no joy so far still get he same old error when trying
||||| to load game...
|||||
||||| Any further ideas ?
|||||
||||| best Regards and Thanks..
|||||
||||| Richard
|||||
||||| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|||||
|||||| Hi richy rock,
||||||
|||||| Since you're starting to get results after attempting the repair install,
|||||| I would suggest running the repair again one or two times for it to
|||||| complete the repair process which it has evidentally started.
||||||
|||||| Pretty healthy CPU you've got there by the way! (P4 3GHz)
||||||
||||||
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|||||| Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
|||||| Jimmy S. http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||||||
|||||| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site: http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|||||| MS Games Help and Support Center: http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|||||| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|||||| _________________________________________________________
||||||
|||||| richy rock Wrote:
|||||| =================
||||||| further to this.....
|||||||
||||||| My PC now sees it as a CD / DVD and the microsfot games advisor did run and
||||||| complete its scan with the following message..
|||||||
||||||| WOW.....
|||||||
||||||| Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2993MHz
||||||| Graphics Card: ATI RADEON X600
||||||| Memory: 1024MB
||||||| Free Disk Space: 58.67GB
||||||| Optical Drive: CD/DVD
||||||| Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
|||||||
||||||| Does this help ?
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| "richy rock" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| Hi,
||||||||
|||||||| I purchased a game, Shellshock Nam 67....2nd hand.
||||||||
|||||||| When I tried to run the game I got the above error. Today XP thinks the game
|||||||| is an audio CD ? What on earth is going on ?
||||||||
|||||||| I also tried to use the XP gaming site to check the compatability and the
|||||||| program scanned my pc and said it couldnt complete the scan due to technical
|||||||| difficulties..
||||||||
|||||||| Help ! PC is a Dell Dimension 5150C
||||||||
|||||||| Thanks Richard



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