Re: CD will not play...

Thanks for the reply wes,

Alas,It doesn't matter which CD I put in the drive, (pre recorded or 'home
made') when I look at the properties it shows O bytes for used and free
space.

Therefore I cannot access the disk information at all.despite the tray door
opening etc.

However an interesting thing is that there is now 'Nero Image drive SCSI
CdROm Device' has appeared in the hardware listing for the E drive.

Could this be part of the problem when I installed Nero ?

Many thanks for your input

Jim



"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Jim,

Autoplay will not help if a disk cannot be read.

Can you take the CD to another machine and see if another drive can read
the
CD?

If the CD is clean and does not work in another drive, it is probably
damaged and has to be replaced.

What did you use to create the CD?

If you used InCD, you need InCD on your machine to read the CD. Quite
often
a CD created with InCD will show as empty when Windows looks at it.

If you stick the CD in drive E:, open My Computer, right click Drive E:,
select Properties, what does Used and Free space and Capacity show on the
General tab?

0, 0 and 0? Or something else?

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:1PIKg.51$t4.13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
jim <owl2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Thanks for the link Wes ...

unfortunately I have run the Auto play wizard several times with no
result - if it is of any relevance, the disk is not indicated (i.e. no
data shown) on the 'my computer' drive E screen.

yet the busy light does show, and program manager indicates no problem ?

Incidentally the DVD drive works fine.

TIA

JIM


"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How to Troubleshoot Issues with Reading CD, CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD Discs
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/321641

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:OfHKg.4450$8V4.4001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
jim <owl2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Anyone have any ideas how to make a CD player recognise the disk's ?

It has suddenly stopped playing / recognising disks - it may have been
as a consequence of loading Nero (which I have since deleted)

The program manger recognises the hardware and says drivers etc are OK

TIA

Jim ;o(



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