cdroms won't read

[Guest Joe T]

I have 2 cd-roms. According to the device manager these are working properly.

No exclaimation marks.

1. D: drive is standard cd-rom drive/F5B. Put disk in and get flashing

red/green light.

2. E: drive is Cendyne_522452AX. Put disk in and get green light but no

loading.

3. Only E: drive will ONLY read my ATI utility disk. Both drives will not

read any other disk. XP disk, Office 2003, motherboard disks etc.

4. Uninstalled both through device manager. Add hardware. Both returned to

same condition.

5. Problems started same day as network connection problem. I fixed that.

6. Can't do XP repair with disk because cd-roms won't read.

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: cdroms won't read

 

Do the devices share the same IDE controller ? Is this a new condition

where in the past both devices worked ? Sometimes certain combination

of PATA devices on the same controller don't play well together. For a

proper enumeration of the opticals I would have uninstalled either the

Primary or Secondary controller that hosts the drives.

 

To me there is almost no reason to have multiple Optical drives in a PC.

A single DVD-RW meets almost all requirements and most burning apps

provide a copy disk feature. ( If that's needed ).

 

"Joe T" <JoeT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:BFA21D02-90DC-454E-9C1F-C356693FA41F@microsoft.com...

>I have 2 cd-roms. According to the device manager these are working

>properly.

> No exclaimation marks.

> 1. D: drive is standard cd-rom drive/F5B. Put disk in and get flashing

> red/green light.

> 2. E: drive is Cendyne_522452AX. Put disk in and get green light but no

> loading.

> 3. Only E: drive will ONLY read my ATI utility disk. Both drives will not

> read any other disk. XP disk, Office 2003, motherboard disks etc.

> 4. Uninstalled both through device manager. Add hardware. Both returned to

> same condition.

> 5. Problems started same day as network connection problem. I fixed that.

> 6. Can't do XP repair with disk because cd-roms won't read.

>

>

[Guest Joe T]

Re: cdroms won't read

 

Yes, they are both on the same cable and worked okay until something

happened. I suspose I could unplug one of them and see what happens.

 

"R. McCarty" wrote:

> Do the devices share the same IDE controller ? Is this a new condition

> where in the past both devices worked ? Sometimes certain combination

> of PATA devices on the same controller don't play well together. For a

> proper enumeration of the opticals I would have uninstalled either the

> Primary or Secondary controller that hosts the drives.

>

> To me there is almost no reason to have multiple Optical drives in a PC.

> A single DVD-RW meets almost all requirements and most burning apps

> provide a copy disk feature. ( If that's needed ).

>

> "Joe T" <JoeT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:BFA21D02-90DC-454E-9C1F-C356693FA41F@microsoft.com...

> >I have 2 cd-roms. According to the device manager these are working

> >properly.

> > No exclaimation marks.

> > 1. D: drive is standard cd-rom drive/F5B. Put disk in and get flashing

> > red/green light.

> > 2. E: drive is Cendyne_522452AX. Put disk in and get green light but no

> > loading.

> > 3. Only E: drive will ONLY read my ATI utility disk. Both drives will not

> > read any other disk. XP disk, Office 2003, motherboard disks etc.

> > 4. Uninstalled both through device manager. Add hardware. Both returned to

> > same condition.

> > 5. Problems started same day as network connection problem. I fixed that.

> > 6. Can't do XP repair with disk because cd-roms won't read.

> >

> >

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