Hi, im having a problem with my CD ROM DRive, the night before, CD's worked fine everytime a CD was inserted, however, today I've tried placing a CD in.. the COmputer will neither autorun, or detect the CD.. When I insert a cd, it says "please insetr cd" the light's on the CD ROM drive flash, but u cannot access the files or open the drive. Appreciate any help given. THankz in advance

I had same problem on one of my machines. It would play audio CDs but not read data CDs. I figured out that the Windows Media Player was active in the background. If so, there should be an Icon in the lower right end of the taskbar. If that is the case, your problem is solved. Cheers de Peter

Can you see the CD drives in MY COMPUTER? If you cant see them listed this fix is what you need. If you see the there then I dont know what to tell ya.. OK, check MY COMPUTER and if you dont see the CDROM drives do this --- This will clear up your problem, I had the same thing happen to me... While running Windows XP, after having recently installed Burning Software (such as: Roxio Easy CD Creator or Nero), XP becomes unable to find your CD-ROM/DVD/CD-RW drives, give the following a try. First go into the Device Manager (which is found by Right clicking on your My Computer Icon, and selecting Properties. When the System Properties window appears click on the Hardware Tab. In the center of that tabbed page you will see Device Manager. Click on that button). When you see your CD-ROMs or CD-RW's listed, Right click on each device and select Uninstall. Ignore the Warning and remove the devices anyway.) Next go to Start, Run, type in regedit then click OK! In the Registry go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} When you double left click on that folder in the Left Window, over in the Right Window you should see either an UpperFilter, LowFilter or both. If either or both are found, right click on those entries and select: Delete. After doing that Reboot and any CD drives that you have will be found, and XP will load a basic driver for your master CD-ROM.

no help......there isnt a "upper filter or lower filter " in the directory chuck specified..and this applies to data CD's. not music CD's. they're fully legitamate but i have no idea, why they dont even start ....

hi chuny use system restore it worked for me.

How to Troubleshoot Issues with Reading CD, CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD Discs http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q321641