Re: Music CDs hang me up

Have you gone through all the startup services using MSCONFIG?

"vermilioncafe" <vermilioncafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:45B8CCCB-41DF-45B1-9BB3-93F012ADEBD3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mike, thanks, and I forgot to mention that I did that previously. No
contenders were found. I'll also mention that I can't even boot if there's a
blank CD-R or a commercial music CD sitting in D. Again, no problem with
software and CD-Rs burned by others -- just blanks and music bought from a
store. I'm thinking hardware failure -- but only for specific types of CDs?


"Mike Williams [Thin Ice]" wrote:

If D & E are optical drives, then defragmenting would not really make sense
at all as files are not laid out in the same way as on FAT or NTFS drives.

If you've got a hanging issue, then it may be due to some resident software
(Creative is a possibility) fighting for control of the drive. You should
try to disable as much startup software as possible, maybe running in safe
mode, to see if you can eliminate possible contention.

"vermilioncafe" <vermilioncafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:654E4F6B-0B0D-4D41-B8C1-E32A9CA92610@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On my writer drive (D) and my reader drive (E), I am able to > successfully
> play software and CD-R's with photos burned on other people's machines.
> However, if I go to play a commercially recorded CD, or even put a > blank
> CD-R
> in D, the XP hangs up within 2-3 seconds. I've adjusted D's speed
> properties
> from 52X to 4X, and removed the drive and controller. They > successfully
> re-installed when XP came back up, did another restart, but the problem
> persists. I read a suggestion to defrag D, but my MS defragger does > not
> give
> me an option to defrag D or E (which would seem to make sense to me), > so
> just
> for kicks I did defrag C. Lastly, Windows Explorer tells me D (with
> nothing
> in it) is 100% used space (not sure if that's the way it's supposed to
> be).
> AHHHHHHH! and TIA
>



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