Re: Can Not See Audio Files On Music CD

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Mike wrote:
I have a DVD/CD-RW Drive mounted (F:) on my HP laptop running
Windows XP Professional. The device manager says that the device
is working properly but I can not see the files on any commercial
music CD I load. I have not tried to load any other type of disk.

When I insert the disk, the drive spins but no files are listed
when I navigate to the drive folder. I have uninstalled the drive
and had windows discover and reinstall it. Still not working. I
have upgraded the driver with the latest firmware from Sony. Still
not working.

What could be wrong?

This used to work fine a couple of months ago. The only change that
may have happened since then is an upgrade to windows media player.

Laptop: HP Pavillion ZT3000
Make: SONY DVD +RW DW-P50A

The problem I am having now..

"I have not tried to load any other type of disk."

Try it.
Try one you burned (music and data) and a stamped one you
bought/borrowed/got in the mail that says "AOL" on it.
Try other types of CDs and DVDs and see if you can read any of them.
If you have another machine - make sure that other machine can see the
contents of each of the CD/DVDs this one cannot.

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