RE: I hope someone can help....CD-RW not seeing anything
- From: ron939 <ron939@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:00:02 -0700
Thanks for your input. I installed a used CD drive and received the same
results; that was one of my first steps at trying to repair this old comp. I
suppose that too could have a dirty head; at this point I am willing to try
just about anything. :).
I inserted my XP Pro disk (registered) and it didn't go to the option for
"boot from disk". The drive indicator blinked and the normal boot loaded
from C:. I checked my BIOS settings, all reads normal there. I updated the
BIOS anyway; there was an update at the Gateway site. Is it possible the
Mother Board is bad on that circuit? I reseated the cables and tryed
connecting the slave connection on the drive bus and it still doesn't read
anything on the disk. This is an odd one.
"ron939" wrote:
> System specs: XP Pro, 1.3 GHz, 384 RAM, IDE drive control.
> I recently lost all read or write ability to my CD-RW. It was working
> normally until after a defrag of my HD and a scan from BitDefender. Now,
> when I insert any CD (game, program, etc.), the read indicator on the drive
> blinks as if it were going to autorun then nothing. I go to "my computer",
> and the drive is indicated, however, without reconizing contents on the disk.
> Clicking on the drive gives a msg box of "please a disk in drive "E".
> Device Manager shows the correct drive info and it says the devise is working
> properly. I select "update driver" or "roll back drivers" and the wizard
> cannot find any. Trouble Shooter didn't help. I followed the info in a post
> to uninstall the devise and restart, now it shows the drive to be only CD ROM
> at "my computer". I tryed a replacement CD drive (had a used one from a
> different computer) and had the same results. System Restore had no results
> as well. I have a bad feeling that during the Bitdefender scan that a virus
> was found in the drivers base and my settings for the files found bad are
> (1)disinfected, (2)move to quarantine, (3)deleted, where most of the found
> 'bugs' could not be cleaned and ultimately deleted.
> Also, I cannot update Windows due to a virus found in IE6, I honestly feel
> that my settings in Local Policies are not allowing many things to happen for
> there are other programs and software updates not installing correctly. I
> tryed a Windows reinstall (Update) and that didn't seem to change any
> settings in Local or Group settings.
> What really scares me is that without the ability to read disks, I cannot
> reformat, which is what I do once every year or so anyway. But unless
> someone has a solution to my failing system I am at a dead point and out of
> resources....please help. THANK YOU in advance.
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