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DVD drive wont recognise CD
Name: Johnjstanton Date: October 8, 2003 at 14:12:12 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: 885 / ??
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Hi please help this is for a friend and has got me totally confued. Fitted DVD drive and reads DVD movies no problem. Put a CD into the drive and the computer reads the files on the disk as EMPTY space! IE you cant see the files on the CD but they are there but in the empty space bit 654,987 bytes of empty space on a games disk! Please could anyone suggest a fix as I cannot find anything. Your help much appreciated regards John
Name: TopFarmer Date: October 8, 2003 at 15:01:17 Pacific
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Hi copyed this info for some where but do not remember. If data CDs do not work set the Key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\policies\Explorer and set the value"NoDriveTypeAutoRun" to 95 00 00 00
It will require you to edit the registry so be sure you have a current rb??.cab file in case a error is made and a restore is required. In case you do not know the rb??.cab file is a registry backup file.
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Response Number 2
Name: leshologramz Date: October 8, 2003 at 15:55:35 Pacific
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Before you toggle the Registry,...I think I'd recommend you refer to your DVD Hard drive documentation about playing music CDs. Open the folder for all the DVD files and read the readme.txt files to find out more. If this info is not in your real-files or on your pc, you can find it on the web at the vendor's web-site. There should be one exe file for playing dvds and another for .cda files,...the usual extention for commercial music cds (others being wav, mp3, etc.) ALso, open windows explorer and go to 'VIEW--FOLDER OPTION--File Types,...' and make sure that the correct exe ap is set to play the music extention that is in the DVD to be played. JHG.
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Response Number 3
Name: phil Date: October 8, 2003 at 16:55:27 Pacific
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Not enough information--dvd player--. Some dvd players are just that --dvd players--. They will not read cdroms.
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