Re: XP not reading CDs or flash drives

In <u9GijpoSIHA.4768@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Elmo
<elmogeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jack Dominey wrote:
I'm running XP Home SP2 on a Dell Inspiron 5100. About a year ago, I
noticed it would not read a CD or flash drive.

CDs - XP reports data CDs, music CDs, and flash drives as Total Size 0
bytes, Free Space 0 bytes. CDs show no file system. Flash drives
show a file system of RAW. The CD drive itself is recognized and
assigned drive D:, and plugging in the flash drive causes it to show
in Explorer as Removable Disk (E:).

I am reasonably certain this is not a hardware problem. Music CDs run
fine in Windows Media Player (!). I can boot Ubuntu Linux from a CD,
and Ubuntu recognizes CDs and Flash Drives.

I have tried tweaking the Registry settings for removable drives with
no result.

Any advice would be welcome.

CD repair for XP:
http://aumha.org/downloads/cdgone.zip

Also try the following. You should back up the registry before making
changes:

Click Start, Run, type Regedit, click OK.
Locate this Registry Key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class
Key Name: {4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Value Data: [Delete All Value Data from UpperFilters and LowerFilters]
Note: Do not delete the Key or the Multi-String Values. Delete only the
data values.
Exit Registry and Reboot

Thanks. I tried the Registry change, but it made no difference.

It's very frustrating. Windows recognizes the drive, it just doesn't
read any data off of it. Oh, and it now sees a data disk as RAW
format.
--
"I'm gonna act grown up/That's my plan"
Jack Dominey
jack_dominey (at) email (dot) com
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