CD Reads Data Disc as Audio

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Are the CD's in question home-burnt discs, or factory-burnt discs?
Have you tried cleaning the CD drive with an inexpensive audio CD drive cleaning
disc?
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"jmace845" <jmace845@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After re-formatting hard drive and re-loading Windows98 my cd rom reads data
> cd's as an audio cd. This is a old PC with a 52 speed cdr. It also has Nero 6
> loaded on it. I have searched the Internet and found that others have had the
> same issue but no solutions. Does anyone have an idea on this? Even the
> Windows CD Player tries to play it and if you look at it in Windows Explorer
> it swos Track 1 and so on.

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http://support.microsoft.com/defau [...] US;q237948
Troubleshoot CD-R_W

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=218617
Troubleshoot CD-ROM or DVD-ROM

I guess, a first try would be...

(1) Boot to Safe Mode. (Hold F5 as you boot, or hold CTRL for the
Startup Menu, & select Safe Mode from that.)
(2) "START, Settings, Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab".
(3) Open the CD-ROM branch, by clicking it's plus sign.
(4) Highlight each drive in that branch, & click "Remove".
(Safe Mode may reveal the presence of a "ghost".)
(5) Close up, & boot to Normal Mode.

Hopefully Windows will find the correct drivers, & all will be well.


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"jmace845" <jmace845@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| After re-formatting hard drive and re-loading Windows98 my cd rom
reads data
| cd's as an audio cd. This is a old PC with a 52 speed cdr. It also has
Nero 6
| loaded on it. I have searched the Internet and found that others have
had the
| same issue but no solutions. Does anyone have an idea on this? Even
the
| Windows CD Player tries to play it and if you look at it in Windows
Explorer
| it swos Track 1 and so on.