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cd drive not work
Name: g gregory Date: January 16, 2003 at 20:00:31 Pacific OS: windows me CPU/Ram: intel/256
Comment:
We have an emachine, we're running Windows ME, and out of nowhere our icon for our CD drive disappeared out of "My Computer" window and now our CD drive stopped working. Any ideas on what happened & how to fix? Thanks. GG
Name: JackG Date: January 16, 2003 at 20:32:49 Pacific
Reply:
That happened in the reverse order, your CD drive quit working so Windows automatically took the icon out of the list. Check in Device Manager for errors relating to the CD-ROM drive. Try removing it and see if it gets detected again when you reboot.
To tell the difference in a hardware and a Windows software problem, make a Windows ME startup diskette (Add/Remove Programs - Startup disk tab) and boot the system with it and see if it can detect the drive in DOS mode. If it does not detect it, you have a hardware problem. If it detects it in DOS and you can do a DIR of a data CD, then its a Windows ME problem.
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Response Number 2
Name: g gregory Date: January 17, 2003 at 08:44:45 Pacific
Summary: Can anyone suggest a solution? My CD-ROM stopped working and would not open. It has been de-assigned from the drive list but still appears in the system list with error message 10, drive not working....
Summary: I have a Dell system running Windows ME. Recently, the CD drive stopped working. If I put a cd in the drive it says, "insert CD". I updated the driver and the firmware for the drive. Any ideas? Tha...
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