RE: I hope someone can help....CD-RW not seeing anything
- From: ron939 <ron939@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 12:29:05 -0700
That was it.....Thanks all and a tip of the hat to ya!!! The problem is in
my profile. I logged in on a different administrator profile, which I had set
up a few months ago while trying to fix my update problem, and all is well.
Now that I have a CD again, I will be able to wipe the HD for a clean start.
I am to the Wal Mart to get some CD-RWs to do some "back-ups". Then a GW
WRITE to c: drive....THANKS AGAIN ALL; YOU ARE THE BEST; especially you
NotMe.
"ron939" wrote:
> 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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