CD-ROM problems

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Hi. I am writing this because of a problem with my CD-ROM
(D drive. I would put an audio cd into the drive, but
whenever I try to read from the drive, windows tells me
to insert a cd into drive D:. I click cancel and try and
play it through Windows Media Player and it doesn't even
recognize the disc in the drive (but I can hear the disc
spinning). When I eject the disc, the drive doesn't stop
the disc then eject like it used to. Now it spits it out
with the disc still spinning. If anyone can help, all
help is greatly appreciated.

-RANGERGX2

P.S.: I ran PC-Doctor and it failed because it also said
that there wasn't a disc in the drive.

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A friend's laptop has the same problem as OP. I've gone through both of these KBs and neither one
has helped.

If I switch the order of bootable devices in the BIOS, I can read a CD - but when I am running
Windows XP Home, all I can get is:

"Insert disk in Drive D:"

Along the same note, the USB drive from their camera is not recognized either.

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!

Larry

"Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message newssVPrBQbEHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Try these:
> http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;321641
> http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] -us;314096
>
> Check the bottom on the second one especially
>
> ----
> Nathan McNulty
>
>
> RangerGX2@aol.com wrote:
> > Hi. I am writing this because of a problem with my CD-ROM
> > (D drive. I would put an audio cd into the drive, but
> > whenever I try to read from the drive, windows tells me
> > to insert a cd into drive D:. I click cancel and try and
> > play it through Windows Media Player and it doesn't even
> > recognize the disc in the drive (but I can hear the disc
> > spinning). When I eject the disc, the drive doesn't stop
> > the disc then eject like it used to. Now it spits it out
> > with the disc still spinning. If anyone can help, all
> > help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > -RANGERGX2
> >
> > P.S.: I ran PC-Doctor and it failed because it also said
> > that there wasn't a disc in the drive.

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Yeah, thanks for your reply, becaues that's what I figured.

And, I would back up all of the data too - except... I can't use the CD to do it!

I guess it is off to X-drive for the free 15 days.

Thanks!

Larry

"Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message news:u%23pVevZeEHA.4092@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> I would just backup my data, format, and do a clean install. It sounds
> like that install of XP is just trashed. Those two links provide
> crosslinks to almost every fix in the book and if nothing in those will
> fix it, Windows may just be messed up beyond repair.
>
> ----
> Nathan McNulty
>
>
> Larry Kahm wrote:
> > A friend's laptop has the same problem as OP. I've gone through both of these KBs and neither
one
> > has helped.
> >
> > If I switch the order of bootable devices in the BIOS, I can read a CD - but when I am running
> > Windows XP Home, all I can get is:
> >
> > "Insert disk in Drive D:"
> >
> > Along the same note, the USB drive from their camera is not recognized either.
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Larry
> >
> > "Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message newssVPrBQbEHA.3684@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> >
> >>Try these:
> >>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;321641
> >>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314096
> >>
> >>Check the bottom on the second one especially
> >>
> >>----
> >>Nathan McNulty
> >>
> >>
> >>RangerGX2@aol.com wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi. I am writing this because of a problem with my CD-ROM
> >>>(D drive. I would put an audio cd into the drive, but
> >>>whenever I try to read from the drive, windows tells me
> >>>to insert a cd into drive D:. I click cancel and try and
> >>>play it through Windows Media Player and it doesn't even
> >>>recognize the disc in the drive (but I can hear the disc
> >>>spinning). When I eject the disc, the drive doesn't stop
> >>>the disc then eject like it used to. Now it spits it out
> >>>with the disc still spinning. If anyone can help, all
> >>>help is greatly appreciated.
> >>>
> >>>-RANGERGX2
> >>>
> >>>P.S.: I ran PC-Doctor and it failed because it also said
> >>>that there wasn't a disc in the drive.
> >
> >
> >