Both my optical drives have stopped reading CDs. In My Computer the CD-RW

drive is blank and the CD drive gives a message saying,"Windows cannot read

from this disc ..."  Both drives recognize a CD (music, data) if it is in the

drive when the computer boots. However, if you open and close the drive it

can no longer see the disc. With a music CD I can get it to play using

Windows Media Player even though My Computer shows nothing there. Device

Manager shows everything is fine. I have tried disabling AVG Antivirus. These

drives have worked for over 2 years until now.

If your local policy or domain policy prohibits, you can't use them. Please

check that these aren't in place.

Possibly the cable has come out from the mobo, does the BIOS detect the two

drives as it boots?



"Sterling22" <Sterling22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Both my optical drives have stopped reading CDs. In My Computer the CD-RW

> drive is blank and the CD drive gives a message saying,"Windows cannot

> read

> from this disc ..."  Both drives recognize a CD (music, data) if it is in

> the

> drive when the computer boots. However, if you open and close the drive it

> can no longer see the disc. With a music CD I can get it to play using

> Windows Media Player even though My Computer shows nothing there. Device

> Manager shows everything is fine. I have tried disabling AVG Antivirus.

> These

> drives have worked for over 2 years until now.

I have the same problem with my DVD and DVD-rw drives, except my floppy

drive is affected too! If I boot

in safe mode, then the drives all operate as they should.  I've tried

uninstalling various programs which access the drives, I've uninstalled SP2,

I've deleted the drives and let XP autodetect them on startup. Nothing seems

to help.



Is there some sort of auto mounting device or setting that is not there or

set wrong? I really need help, I've been screwing around with this for a few

days and nothing seems to help.



Thkx'

fj

"Gary" <cc@dd.com> wrote in message

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> If your local policy or domain policy prohibits, you can't use them.

Please

> check that these aren't in place.

> Possibly the cable has come out from the mobo, does the BIOS detect the

two[vbcol=seagreen]

> drives as it boots?

>

> "Sterling22" <Sterling22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:B58EA00D-8E04-4832-A6E7-84095E10A1C2@microsoft.com... 

CD-RW[vbcol=seagreen] 

in[vbcol=seagreen] 

it 

>

>

Not sure what is meant by local or domain policy. The BIOS detects them fine

and they show up in My Computer. They just won't read any discs - except once

if the disc is in when I reboot. If I eject the disc and put it right back

in, it acts like it can't read the disc. I find it strange that this would

suddenly occur with both my optical drives but I'm stumped as to the cause.



"Gary" wrote:



> If your local policy or domain policy prohibits, you can't use them. Please

> check that these aren't in place.

> Possibly the cable has come out from the mobo, does the BIOS detect the two

> drives as it boots?

>

> "Sterling22" <Sterling22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:B58EA00D-8E04-4832-A6E7-84095E10A1C2@microsoft.com... 

>

>

>

I have the same problem... There are WAY too many people

with the SAME problem for it to be a hardware issue. It

has to be on the software side. I've been trying to fix

this myself for the last week. No luck here either,

however, its better than it was before.



I can now at least see the contents of my discs via this

registry hack http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?

scid=kb;en-us;314060, but the disc voluem label is still

missing, and the discs will not autoplay UNLESS I eject

the disc and then close it again. Then I have a 50/50

chance if it autoplaying, but now I should get the volume

label and the contents.



And just today I see I have another problem... while

testing, I installed a game and it asked for a second

disc, no problem, but the second disc in and it reads...

then after its done, it wants the first one again, no

problem, however, this time my drive disappears! Now the

game can't be completed and I'm back to square one.



Like the others, if I leave the disc or any disc in and

reboot, it sees it fine. And I've also tried safe mode

like other people and it works fine, at least reading and

getting the volume label. I sure hate to re-install, but

knowing my luck, it won't do any good anyway. Hehe



Hello Drive Imagine!





>-----Original Message-----

>I have the same problem with my DVD and DVD-rw drives,

except my floppy

>drive is affected too! If I boot

>in safe mode, then the drives all operate as they

should.  I've tried

>uninstalling various programs which access the drives,

I've uninstalled SP2,

>I've deleted the drives and let XP autodetect them on

startup. Nothing seems

>to help.

>

>Is there some sort of auto mounting device or setting

that is not there or

>set wrong? I really need help, I've been screwing around

with this for a few[vbcol=seagreen]

>days and nothing seems to help.

>

>Thkx'

>fj

>"Gary" <cc@dd.com> wrote in message

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can't use them.[vbcol=seagreen]

>Please 

the BIOS detect the[vbcol=seagreen]

>two 

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84095E10A1C2@microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen] 

My Computer the[vbcol=seagreen]

>CD-RW 

saying,"Windows cannot[vbcol=seagreen] 

(music, data) if it is[vbcol=seagreen]

>in 

and close the drive[vbcol=seagreen]

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get it to play using[vbcol=seagreen] 

nothing there. Device[vbcol=seagreen] 

disabling AVG Antivirus. 

>

>

>

>.

>

Hi - I see that you already have tried disabling AVG. I notice that I have had repeated problems just as you describe after installing the latest v. 7.0 of the AVG antivirus program, upgrading from the free v.6 ...it never happened under 6. I have had it looked at, reformatted, all the palaver that takes years off your life, but still AVG 7 seems to be behind it all.

Anyone else had this similar coincidence?



cheers

Jenny

 

	
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Another victim of similiar problems & error messages with year old CD-RW

drive that worked perfectly until month ago using CD Creator Platinum 6.

Just installed Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 and didn't resolve drive issue.

BIOS, Device Manager & other locations all show drive ok.  Have tried

all the different things already mentioned by others and googled the problem

to death this past month to no avail.  At least my CD-ROM will read disks

but obviously can't back up to that one.  Would be a nice start to New Year

if some knowledgeable MVP out there would try and track down why so

many having similiar problems and give us a working solution rather than

telling us what most of us have already checked or done on our own to try

and resolve issue.









"Sterling22" <Sterling22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:B58EA00D-8E04-4832-A6E7-84095E10A1C2@microsoft.com...

> Both my optical drives have stopped reading CDs. In My Computer the CD-RW

> drive is blank and the CD drive gives a message saying,"Windows cannot

read

> from this disc ..."  Both drives recognize a CD (music, data) if it is in

the

> drive when the computer boots. However, if you open and close the drive it

> can no longer see the disc. With a music CD I can get it to play using

> Windows Media Player even though My Computer shows nothing there. Device

> Manager shows everything is fine. I have tried disabling AVG Antivirus.

These

> drives have worked for over 2 years until now.

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:56:45 -0500, "Fizzikal" <fizzelled@workout.spa>

wrote:

[vbcol=seagreen]

>Another victim of similiar problems & error messages with year old CD-RW

>drive that worked perfectly until month ago using CD Creator Platinum 6.

>Just installed Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 and didn't resolve drive issue.

>BIOS, Device Manager & other locations all show drive ok.  Have tried

>all the different things already mentioned by others and googled the problem

>to death this past month to no avail.  At least my CD-ROM will read disks

>but obviously can't back up to that one.  Would be a nice start to New Year

>if some knowledgeable MVP out there would try and track down why so

>many having similiar problems and give us a working solution rather than

>telling us what most of us have already checked or done on our own to try

>and resolve issue.

>

>

>

>

>"Sterling22" <Sterling22@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>news:B58EA00D-8E04-4832-A6E7-84095E10A1C2@microsoft.com... 

>read 

>the 

>These 



Here's my story -

I have a Dimension 4100 PIII with Windows XP Pro that has developed

several problems.



My external Iomega CD-RW burner (Drive G) no longer recognizes blank

CDs. However, I can burn CDs on this drive using Windows Media Player

but not Iomega HotBurn.



Both my factory installed D Drive (CD-Rom Lite-On LTN 483S 48xMax) and

E Drive (LG CD-RW CED 8080B) play music CDs, but can't read data CDs.

The drives blink and a disc icon flashes when I insert the data discs

but the following occurs:



D drive - Can't read data cds at all. Dialog box says "Please insert a

disc."



E drive - Dialog box with music program selection pops up as if I'd

inserted a music cd. I can't open the disc in explorer. Dialog box

says "E:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.



I tried to do a System Restore to several different restore points,

but System Restore is not able to restore to any point in the last

week even though the system has been backed up all those days.



Any suggestions will be appreciated!

Hi All



I had this problem for several months . I recentrly came across this on a

newsgroup and hey presto everything is back and working.



It appears that if you have installed a USB flash drive this causes the

problem. I have deleted the software that enabled me to spilt the drive into

a private and open area and everything is ok.



I would be intersted to know if any of you have recently installed a USB

falsh Drive/Pen



http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...=en-us&m=1&p=1





"fj" <phantomfj@hotmail.com> wrote in message

news:S0hAd.16280$nN6.8540@edtnps84...

>I have the same problem with my DVD and DVD-rw drives, except my floppy

> drive is affected too! If I boot

> in safe mode, then the drives all operate as they should.  I've tried

> uninstalling various programs which access the drives, I've uninstalled

> SP2,

> I've deleted the drives and let XP autodetect them on startup. Nothing

> seems

> to help.

>

> Is there some sort of auto mounting device or setting that is not there or

> set wrong? I really need help, I've been screwing around with this for a

> few

> days and nothing seems to help.

>

> Thkx'

> fj

> "Gary" <cc@dd.com> wrote in message

> news:%23hcnJmM7EHA.2156@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... 

> Please 

> two 

> CD-RW 

> in 

> it 

>

>

>

Did you ever get a solution to your problem?  I have spent the last week trying to fix the same issue.  In the morning the drives were working fine.  Late in the day, after installing SP2 on a Windows XP Home PC and new antivirus software, the drives quit.  Can you help?




	
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				Originally posted by Sterling22 

Both my optical drives have stopped reading CDs. In My Computer the CD-RW

drive is blank and the CD drive gives a message saying,"Windows cannot read

from this disc ..."  Both drives recognize a CD (music, data) if it is in the

drive when the computer boots. However, if you open and close the drive it

can no longer see the disc. With a music CD I can get it to play using

Windows Media Player even though My Computer shows nothing there. Device

Manager shows everything is fine. I have tried disabling AVG Antivirus. These

drives have worked for over 2 years until now.