Guest Bob Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Since downloading SP 2, I have had problems with my d drive (cd rom). I'm logged in as the administrator, but when I try to save an Excel or Word doc to the d drive, it tells me I do not have access to the d drive and to contact the administrator....which is me and how I am logged in. Also, I have cds with home files on them that my computer no longer picks up. I checked the cd driver and that is running fine. I put a third party disc in, my computer read that and opened it, so the issue seems to be limited to my personal documents. Things were fine before SP 2, but I needed Media Plyr 11 and apparently that requires SP 2. Otherwise I would just remove SP 2. Any ideas? Thank you
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted October 7, 2007 Posted October 7, 2007 Re: XP SP 2 and cd rom problems Bob wrote: > Since downloading SP 2, I have had problems with my d drive (cd > rom). I'm logged in as the administrator, but when I try to save > an Excel or Word doc to the d drive, it tells me I do not have > access to the d drive and to contact the administrator....which is > me and how I am logged in. Also, I have cds with home files on > them that my computer no longer picks up. I checked the cd driver > and that is running fine. I put a third party disc in, my computer > read that and opened it, so the issue seems to be limited to my > personal documents. Things were fine before SP 2, but I needed > Media Plyr 11 and apparently that requires SP 2. Otherwise I would > just remove SP 2. Any ideas? You were able to 'write' to your CD drive like a floppy diskette before? (Based off, "... my d drive (cdrom) ... " and "... but when I try to save an Excel or Word doc to the d drive ...") Windows XP does not natively have the facilities to do this. If you were able to utilize such functions, that ability came from a third party program. (Nero, Roxio, etc.) You should check said program and install anew if necessary - along with any patches you might need from the manufacturer's of said application. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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