CD/DVD rom drive problems.
Posted by: Tony Lockhart on 17 October 2006
Ok, I hope I can remember everything here.
My PC was working ok except for the CDR drive. It was assigned a drive letter in My Computer but if I put a disc in one of the following happened: With a home CDR total size and free space appear the same size (Eg. 420Mb total and 420Mb free...) or with a shop bought CD 0 bytes is shown for total and free. In each case I can't view the contents.
So, I thought maybe it's about to pack up. I bought a new Lite On DVD burner. Fitted, windows (XP) recognises it and loads software, new hardware ready to use...... same problem.
I've changed the IDE cable, juggled the RAM around, still the same.
The strange thing is that if I put a blank CDR in I can burn photo's to the disc and all appears normal. Remove the disc, reinsert and nothing... can't view the contents but the total and free space are there again, same Mb. Then, really weird, Nero lets me burn more photo's to the disc.. I don't know for sure whether the original photo's are on there but Nero says they are. So I burned more on, disc out, disc in, same again.
What on earth is going on here? Has some software gone missing from somewhere?
Any help MUCH appreciated,
Tony
My PC was working ok except for the CDR drive. It was assigned a drive letter in My Computer but if I put a disc in one of the following happened: With a home CDR total size and free space appear the same size (Eg. 420Mb total and 420Mb free...) or with a shop bought CD 0 bytes is shown for total and free. In each case I can't view the contents.
So, I thought maybe it's about to pack up. I bought a new Lite On DVD burner. Fitted, windows (XP) recognises it and loads software, new hardware ready to use...... same problem.
I've changed the IDE cable, juggled the RAM around, still the same.
The strange thing is that if I put a blank CDR in I can burn photo's to the disc and all appears normal. Remove the disc, reinsert and nothing... can't view the contents but the total and free space are there again, same Mb. Then, really weird, Nero lets me burn more photo's to the disc.. I don't know for sure whether the original photo's are on there but Nero says they are. So I burned more on, disc out, disc in, same again.
What on earth is going on here? Has some software gone missing from somewhere?
Any help MUCH appreciated,
Tony