Toshiba Satellite 2615 plays audio but drive won't read data disks

i just upgraded my old lappy to xp from 98 after adding ram...

Before the upgrade i had no problems with my cd drive. Right now the cd rom drive will only play audio cds and if i put anything else in the drive it cant read it. I get the error bad disk corrupt data popup. the disks are not scratched so i have narrowed it down to a driver problem. I have searched all over the place for drivers and cant find the fix. Of course in the install xp found its own driver it tells me it is a xm-1802b drive and supplied a standard driver for it. ive tried unistalling it and even a bios update. Im hoping someone has seen this issue before and it is something simple.

Thank you in advance for any help with my curious issue

oh yeah when i put in a data disk or anything other than an audio disk i can hear it spin up stop a little click then spin up stop and a little click.... etc.... over and over

im sure that the drive is confused... btw way so am i

thanks, -sEth

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Originally Posted by djbAnks

im sure that the drive is confused... btw way so am i

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This one must be for me .. :eek2: :thumbs2:

First thing to try is booting from your windows xp system cd, that's outside windows, so that'll confirm its a software issue & the drive isn't just coincidentally failing at the same time.

..even a bios update..

For the laptop ? What about firmware updates for the drive ?

..upgraded my old lappy to xp from 98 ..

We may be in trouble though from 'the off' - you did check that this laptop can run xp ? not all stuff can be 'just upgraded' ..

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Originally Posted by confus-ed

you did check that this laptop can run xp ? not all stuff can be 'just upgraded' ..

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And even if the hardware turns out to be XP compatable, if it was an "upgrade" over the top of 98 rather than a re-format & clean install, bits of 98-ness can be hanging about causing problems...

Thanks again for the help I am going to format and start with a clean install. If this doesnt work back to 98 or maybe a slim linux distro... Ill let yall know how it turns out... peace

-sEth