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Cd drive boot sector?
Name: Victor Date: March 1, 2000 at 18:33:26 Pacific
Comment:
Is there such thing as a boot sector for your cd rom drive? Because it seems that my cdrom no longer reads any of my cds and the autoplay function rarely works now. It is only after multiple tries am I able to get the drive to start reading my cd. I think it has something do with a boot sector because one of my antiviral programs read the drive and said that, quote, " I/O error- boot sector of drive D:" Drive D is my cd drive. I'm using win 95 with a 16x mitsumi fx140s cdrom. I don't think it needs an updated driver because it has not needed one before and in the performance tab the system registers it as performing normally. But it isn't!! I'm at a lost as to what to do. Does anyone have any ideas to this problem? Buying a new cd drive would be my last option.
How long has it been since you cleaned your CD drive? Get a cleaning disk at any computer store. However, a 16x CD drive is old enough that it may be going bad. The lens just has to be a hair out of alignment to fail. New drives have never been cheaper. Al
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Response Number 2
Name: Teknophlier Date: March 2, 2000 at 02:20:36 Pacific
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After reading your message it just dawned on me... I think I finally figured out why you get a "boot sector" error. You might not like what I have to say and I could still be wrong! This is what I'm thinking... Anti-virus programs look for viruses in many places on a computer... (e.g. Disks) My anti-virus program checks the boot sector of my hard drive and floppy drives, but not my cd-roms cause they don't boot (unless I made a bootable cd-rom, but that's another story)... get it?? Although I can't say why your cd-rom doesn't want to work, I think you're getting the error from your anti-virus program cause it thinks it's checking a "bootable" drive, in terms of a hard disk or floppy drive. Since it can't find a boot sector on the drive it gives you an error message: I/O (input/output) error, Boot sector of drive D: (there is no boot sector!). Can someone out there accept or reject my "theory". I'm not sure about it, it just popped in there when I was reading the message.
Lastly, I still think it's time for a new cd-rom. As Al said, they've never been cheaper.
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