cd-rw

**Amiga** · July 19th, 2005, 08:27 AM

There must be a problem with my dvd and cd-rw drives. I wanted to reinstall office 2000 and consistently get the 1305 error. Example: error reading from file D:PILES\MSOFFICE\TEMPLATE\1033\CSS\blocks_t\BLOCKS .CSS. The dvd-rom is a Toshiba SD-M1502. The cd - rom is listed as standard but it seems to me that it listed as a cd-rw previously. The system crashed and I had to reinstall Windows ME. Hope someone can walk me through this to get it functioning again.

Amiga

**confus-ed** · July 19th, 2005, 11:32 AM

Hi amega welcome to wd forums.

"error reading from file" means it could well be a scratched cd, & you can sometimes get it due to caching problems as described here .

So can you read other disks apparently ok ? or are you getting similar messages if you try & copy anything ?

**NooNoo** · July 19th, 2005, 11:33 AM

Welcome to Windrivers Amiga

Can you install any other programs? Does the cd drive play audio cds ok?

If so, check the office cd... it may be scratched or dirty.

**confus-ed** · July 19th, 2005, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Welcome to Windrivers Amiga

Snap ! & I won

**Amiga** · July 19th, 2005, 06:03 PM

Yes, I can play audios fine. Office 97 installed easily but I cannot install my printer cd nor office 2000. I already tried the caching before I contacted WinDrivers. Any other suggestions.

Amiga

**confus-ed** · July 20th, 2005, 04:06 AM

As a workaround you could try copying the entire install cd to your hard drive & running it from there (some stuff won't run like that though, but worth a go methinks).

Can you look in device manager & tell me/us what shows up connected to 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' ? (there should be three catergories, I/we want to know what is showing as connected to both primary & secondary channels, in each postion, slave or master, & whether they are using 'PIO mode' or 'DMA mode') ..

(unit specs are here for reference)

Can I also ask do you know what chipset patches are? & have you applied any ? If the answer is no to both of those, you'd better give us details about all your pc, & we can then work out what motherboard you may have, to deduce if you need any ..