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The scan showed: C: Healthy System; CD-ROM - 0, CD-ROM (D
No Media; CD-ROM
- 1, CD-ROM (E No Media and didn't even show my A drive.
"Angels4me57" wrote:
> My computer recognizes I have A, D, and E drives, but it will not read from
> any of them. When I check the hardware device manager they all say they are
> working properly. I do not want to reformat C because I would lose a great
> deal of data and since I can't put it on CDs I have no way of recovering it.
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Have a look at this link..
http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xp-autorun.html
"Angels4me57" <Angels4me57@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:193EF2D8-2A41-4230-A00E-E0E2CDA49DE9@microsoft.com...
| The scan showed: C: Healthy System; CD-ROM - 0, CD-ROM (D No
Media; CD-ROM
| - 1, CD-ROM (E No Media and didn't even show my A drive.
|
|
| "Angels4me57" wrote:
|
| > My computer recognizes I have A, D, and E drives, but it will not
read from
| > any of them. When I check the hardware device manager they all say
they are
| > working properly. I do not want to reformat C because I would lose
a great
| > deal of data and since I can't put it on CDs I have no way of
recovering it.
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Ricky,
I tried this on all my drives and it didn't work. On one of the CD drives it
said it was malfunctioning but that it couldn't fix it, but the others didn't
have any problems.
"Ricky" wrote:
> Have a look at this link..
> http://www.softwarepatch.com/windows/xp-autorun.html
>
> "Angels4me57" <Angels4me57@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:193EF2D8-2A41-4230-A00E-E0E2CDA49DE9@microsoft.com...
> | The scan showed: C: Healthy System; CD-ROM - 0, CD-ROM (D No
> Media; CD-ROM
> | - 1, CD-ROM (E No Media and didn't even show my A drive.
> |
> |
> | "Angels4me57" wrote:
> |
> | > My computer recognizes I have A, D, and E drives, but it will not
> read from
> | > any of them. When I check the hardware device manager they all say
> they are
> | > working properly. I do not want to reformat C because I would lose
> a great
> | > deal of data and since I can't put it on CDs I have no way of
> recovering it.
>
>
>
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