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OS and Raid 0 possible problem
I used to be able to insert a CD-ROM into the D drive (CD drive) and it would automatically start. Now the CD won't run. When I go to start/run/D: it says "D: The device is not ready". There is a connection because the light will flash a few times but nothing will run. Please help! I need to run this CD tonight!

CD Drive not working, Life or Death Situation.
Tacit tac...@aol.com comp sys mac system I have an early iMac with a tray loading CD drive. When I insert a CD the icon doesn't appear on the desktop, instead I get a message "This Disc Is Unreadable" "eject" or "initialise". This is a very, very common problem on tray-loading iMacs. Usually, it's caused by dirty

Virtual CD Drive not working
Do a "urpmi hdparm" to install the package (a small one ...) from NDK9-CD if not yet there, then "man hdparm" and try to get status info from your drive. If necessary, change dma or 32-bit modes. I'll try that - but I must copy hdparm from the cd to the hd under windows first. Doesn't that sound dumb ?

CD Drive Not Working All The Time
I'm not sure what you mean by release the old cd. I removed the hardware, set the CD opions to none attached, and then added them again. It's interesting that the vm's can read a DVD in the drive but not a CD. Someone will figure this out. I can't wait to see what is causing it. In the mean time, I'm flashing my

CD Drive not working, Life or Death Situation.
Then tried C:\windows and got CDR101: not ready reading drive D abort retry. I put the CD in and hit retry and got BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. is how can a hard drive that I never had a problem with go bad because of the power going off but still appear to the computer as being there with drive lamp working?

CD Drive not working/HD LED permanently on
The Device Manager indicates the drive is working properly. For years ... well, some other day they quit. Kismet. Now, try booting from a known bootable cd that *used to work*, or a linux live cd. If it fails, don't hesitate. -- vista policy violation: Microsoft optical mouse found penguin patterns on mousepad.

CD drive not working
My computer reconizes that the CD drive it there but when I put a CD in the drive it will not read the CD. This also happens on my external DVD Drive. My external drive works fine on my other computers. The problem is like the the one described in the knowledge base # 883523 Please help me.

dvd drive problem
Mark mawcor...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware I recently noticed that my cd drive was not listed under "My Computer" anymore, so I put a CD in and found out that it no longer reads cd's! I must have accidentally deleted a .dll file or something that ran the CD player. I tried to fix it by going to

IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL
Now, when I pop a CD into the drive, all 3 virtual PC's can't read anything (they say the drive is empty). Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this? Waggers hi folks i have the same problem like wagner I use Vista x64 and VS2005R2 64. In the Virtual CD/DVD Properties I select the physical CD/DVD drive

Adaptec EasyCD Creator or CD Drive problem?
Open your case and check your cable from the Cd-rom to the mother board. It could not be fully connected. Also you can do a restore with XP, that might help but I think your problem is hardware. Let me know what you find. Art1 -----Original Message----- I recently noticed that my CD Drive was not listed under My

CD drive problem
... not at all, some days multiple times, it sounds like a fan or very fast running electric motor it can be heard and the intense vibrations felt through the mouse on the mouse pad. it may sart up at low sound revolutions then build up rapidly with more intense vibration and sound. my thoughts are the dvd/cd drive

Hard-drive based "cd multichanger"
I know it's not the diskettes, I've used different ones. Could it be a hardware problem, like not compatible? It's a Susumi drive. The PC is a HP pavilion 503n, The hard drive says Samsung SV4002H, and the DVD drive says DVD/CD-R LITE-ON LTR-52327S, so they are mentioned by manufacturer. Maybe that could be it?

CD drive problems
All I remember is that when the next time I inserted a CD or DVD, Roxio asks me something like what I would like to do with the 25kb of program files I somehow backed up last time. I deleted that 25kb of data prompting up from Roxio. As a result, now when I try to play a movie DVD or music CD from the CD drive,

Virtual CD Drive not working
The Device Manager indicates the drive is working properly. For years ... well, some other day they quit. Kismet. Now, try booting from a known bootable cd that *used to work*, or a linux live cd. If it fails, don't hesitate. Have you tried cleaning the drive with a cleaning disk which you can buy at any store that

CD Drive Problem with an Ultra 100 Controller
DONALD G. DAVIS dgda...@nyx10.nyx.net alt comp freeware "Ray Smith" <raysmi...@bigpond.com> writes: My CD Drive has failed ,This has happened once before and I managed to = find how to fix it by setting up a string????? in autoexec.bat = unfortunately I cannot remember what it was. This is for an old computer

cd drive not working
The other kicker, the pc will only book to floppy or hard drive (not CD). He had personal You don't say why CD won't boot (I did read this before the reply above) or even boot from Then you get CD booting working and use a Knoppix Live CD to try and read his files and copy to CD/DVD/USB/Networked PC/image.

I/O Device Error
The problem is there is no sign of the drive anywhere on the computer – not in the Bios, not in Device Manager, etc. I have tried to start the computer with a startup disk with CD rom support – the message came up that there was no such device on the computer. The BIOS does not recognize any CD ROM drive.

DVD/CD Drive Not Working
Use the right mouse button to click on My Computer Click Properties on the menu Click the Device Manager tab Look for the CDROM category Click the + sign next to it Highlight the revealed CD-ROM drive Click the Remove button under the list Click the Refresh button Go Start => Shut down => Shut down When Windows

cd drive problem
Kaylene aka Taurarian taurarianREMOVEC...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp perform_maintain http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320553 CD-ROM Drive or DVD-ROM Drive Missing After You Install Windows XP An incorrect device driver was installed for the CD-ROM device.

CD DRIVE NOT WORKING
That doesn't really make sense, unless there is a minor problem with BOTH the CD drive AND the CD disc. Can you copy the CD in question to a Folder on "C" and install from there? dsl22 wrote: Sorry, I have not used these boards very often, and trying to keep my messages short, but obviously not very clear.