CD Drive

[Guest blarney8@.verizon.net]

I have a cd drive on my computer which is not being recognized by ME.

I put the ME disk in the cd drive but it doesn't open because the

drive is not listed.

How do I get ME to open the drive so that I can update drivers on the

computer?

Could I be able to put the XP disk in and install it from that drive

on that computer?

Thanks

[Guest Mike M]

Re: CD Drive

 

The first question is, does the drive actually work? Drives fail, grow

tired and die.

> How do I get ME to open the drive so that I can update drivers on the

> computer?

 

What drivers do you wish to update? I doubt you're going to find updated

CD drivers nor do I think that drivers are likely to be your problem.

> Could I be able to put the XP disk in and install it from that drive

> on that computer?

 

That rather depends on what you are wanting to do. Software rarely

repairs hardware faults.

 

Turning to your problem. I feel/suspect the problem is more one of a

dying optical drive than one of a problem with the operating system. You

might want to try the following.

a) Using A Win Me boot floppy, boot to DOS selecting option 2 - with CD

support (it might be 3, the important thing is to select the option WITH

CD support). This should then lead to your seeing an A:\> prompt.

b) Insert a CD containing data in your CD drive. A data CD is preferred

to an audio CD or a VCD/SVCD.

c) On the assumption that you have just the one hard drive partition (C:\)

enter the following at the A:\> prompt and then click Return

DIR E:\

d) This should now give you a listing of the contents of the data CD or

rather the top level files and folders. If not and you get an error

message then this would strongly suggest a defective optical drive.

 

If you don't have a Win Me boot floppy you can either create one for

yourself (Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Startup Disk) or download

the image of a Win Me startup disk from http://www.bootdisk.com that you can then

run which transfers a copy to a floppy. If when creating a startup disk

you get asked for a file see below for what to do.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

blarney8@.verizon.net <blarney8@.verizon.net> wrote:

> I have a cd drive on my computer which is not being recognized by ME.

> I put the ME disk in the cd drive but it doesn't open because the

> drive is not listed.

> How do I get ME to open the drive so that I can update drivers on the

> computer?

> Could I be able to put the XP disk in and install it from that drive

> on that computer?

> Thanks