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Waterfox
November 26th, 2006, 09:58 PM
Ok....
I don;t remember when it stopped working.... oh right, right after burning an audio CD.
My CD-RW drive will not detect ANY kind of CD.
Everything says the driver is fine and the firmware is great.
I don;t know what the problem is.
Not even bootable disks work. ><
I feel stupid. :grin:
Any help is appreciated. ^^
:mult:
street1
November 26th, 2006, 10:10 PM
Hello,Waterfox welcome to Windrivers. :grin:
If you go to the below site and download the program.
Scroll down the page until you get to "Download Guided Help'
Guided Help is available to delete the UpperFilters and LowerFilters registry values that can cause CD access problems. Guided Help can automatically perform the steps for you.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060/
Country Bumpkin
November 27th, 2006, 01:50 AM
I had one which just stopped too :sad: - a DVD drive,I had made a few DVD's one day then it refused to do any more. Whenever I put a disc in and want to open the drive to see what is on the disc a message keeps coming up to put a disc in the drive. :rolleyes:
I gave up on it some time ago accepting I had broken it and bought another drive which works well. Anyhow I tried the link you suggested street1, but even after trying that, my old drive will not identify it has a disc in it. I do think it has died. Although the light still comes on and it whirrs away as if it knows what it is doing. :grin:
NooNoo
November 27th, 2006, 05:10 AM
If it won't boot a cd and the cd is bootable and the bios/setup is set to boot from CD, it has died... no question about it. Booting from CD is done from the Bios - no windows involvement.
Waterfox
November 27th, 2006, 07:21 AM
Well, it depends.
It is the second drive. The first CD drive (a DVD-ROM drive) works fine,
its the second drive (the CD-RW drive) that is dead. The first is bootable and the second is too, but I think it would go to the first and ignore the second.
And how does a CD drive just.... die
NooNoo
November 27th, 2006, 07:33 AM
the drive dies because the laser quits...
Put the cdrw as master and disconnect the dvdrom drive for the moment, then try a bootable cd. If that doesn't boot, it's dead.
xpuser357
November 27th, 2006, 08:26 AM
Then go buy a new one and give the dead one a proper burial :grin: