Let me preface this by saying that this problem is occurring on a freshly installed Windows 2000 Pro machine. I've installed a game from CD that requires the CD to be in the drive when it is played. When I put the CD in the drive, and launch the game executable the game looks like it is starting up, but never does. I look in the event log and find the error "\Device\CdRom0 has a bad block. Event ID 7" I know the drive works, because when I initially installed the game, I played it, and the game started up fine, and there were no items in the event log. The only thing I can remember doing between then in now, was start the install of Adaptec CD Creator 3.5. It did a small portion of the installation (one program), which I later uninstalled. I have since installed Adaptec CD Creator 4.x, but that didn't solve my problem. Now I suspect the attempted installation of the Adaptec CD Creator 3.5 software is the culprit here, but I have no clue how to fix it. This was not a problem on my Windows ME installation (which was on the same exact hardware). Any help would be greatly appreciated. OS is Windows 2000 Pro SP1 The drive is a HP CD-Writer 9100i. The game is Delta Force Land Warrior Chipset is VIA KT133

i have this same problem - i just don't worry - if it runs the game then leave it! the bad blocks will appear everytime your laser on your cdrom drive has to re-read the same bit ove and over (you know when it goes mad and spins up and down?) also a note from me - don't use your cd writer for general use - you shud be able to get a cheap 50x cdrom that will be much better - expecially if ya have Adaptec direct cd attatched to the drive - whitch comes with easy cd (3.5 + 4)

That is the problem, it will no longer run the game, because the game requires a read from the CD when starting. Your right, I probably shouldn't be using my CD-RW for everyday use. I'll go and pick up a generic CD-Rom. I'll report back if the same problem arrises with the generic.

which game is it? I doubt the reason for the game not working is the error message. I get that error message occasionally too, and everything works fine. If you check on the microsoft support site, that's not a very important error message anyway. It would be serious if it pointed to your hard drive.

have you checked to make sure your cdrom doesn't have either scratches on it or maybe some smudges that could be cleaned??? I'd check that just in case.

I added a regular non-rw cd-rom drive, and a similar problem occurs. The same symptoms, accept now I get the following message in the event log: "The device,\device\ide\ideport1, did not respond within the timeout period." I'm going to wipe and re-load the system, and see if the problem is still there. My guess is, the Adaptec CD software (ver 3.5) that I started to install is probably responsible for the problem. I'll post back with the results in case anyone is interested, or happens to run into a similar problem.

I wiped/reloaded the system with Windows 2000. For a short time after that, I could start the game and play it with no problems. I would still get the same eventlog messages, but the game would start. It doesn't look like the ez-cd software was the problem before, because I installed the new ez-cd software, and the game still worked. I also got the same errors in the eventlog, before I installed the ez-cd software. After a few more software installs, and a few more reboots, the game will no longer start up. Same symptoms as before: Splash screen starts, cd-rom is spinning, hard disk is reading....wait a short time, game terminates. Anyone have any clues?