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CD-RW drive stopped working right
Name: Bennyboy371 Date: November 11, 2003 at 11:41:52 Pacific OS: Windows 98 CPU/Ram: Celeron/256 MB
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My second topic, this one to be more specific. My CD-RW drive no longer reads or writes CDs. It is the Samsung SW-224B model. I have run Norton WinDoctor and this did not fix the problem. It is the slave on the secondary IDE, and I can open and close the drive from My Computer so I believe that means it isn't dead. It worked perfectly before, but I installed InCD and had to manually delete it to get my computer working again. It worked once after this but now it no longer functions. I cannot figure out how to fix this, and this is a real problem to me. Also, would reinstalling Windows help?
Name: max Date: November 11, 2003 at 11:59:50 Pacific
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Boot from a win98 CD (with cdrom support) and see if you can access the drive. That should prove if the drive is defective or if it's a windows problem.
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Response Number 2
Name: max Date: November 11, 2003 at 12:01:37 Pacific
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OOOps I meant to say boot from a win98 Startup floppy.
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Response Number 3
Name: zeb Date: November 11, 2003 at 14:24:07 Pacific
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want you set it up as master instead of slave see if this helps.I had one set up as slave it gave me touble and then I made it a master and no more problems.worth a try.
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Response Number 4
Name: Bennyboy371 Date: November 11, 2003 at 15:44:45 Pacific
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For some odd reason my computer won't let me create a startup disk, it asks to put in the CD-ROM, I do, it can't find the file, and I can't find one manually. Can someone point me towards a disk image of one?
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Response Number 5
Name: beansoup Date: November 11, 2003 at 16:14:49 Pacific
Name: Bennyboy371 Date: November 11, 2003 at 17:27:14 Pacific
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Yes, I know. I tried, it won't let me. I'm looking for a disk image of one now. Know where I can find one?
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Response Number 7
Name: Don Miller Date: November 12, 2003 at 05:22:33 Pacific
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You can get a bootdisk image at www.bootdisk.com. Download it to your desktop and double-click. It will prompt you to insert a floppy and will create a boot image for you there.
Don
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Response Number 8
Name: Bennyboy371 Date: November 12, 2003 at 06:30:06 Pacific
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Yes, but aren't those just regular bootdisks? I'm looking for a setup disk, those wouldn't have the files that my computer wouldn't put onto the disk for some reason.
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