Strange... CDROM not reading exe and dll files, others fine

[Guest Sean Schult]

Greetings folks,

 

Usually the issues I run into can be solved with a little searching, trial

and error, and plenty of mountain dew. This one however has me stumped -- and

I beg the assistance of anyone who can help me get to the bottom of it.

 

Upon a fresh reinstall of WinXP Pro on the computer in question (core 2 duo

2.4ghz on an Asus P5W-DH Deluxe), the CDROM (a Lite-On DVD+/-RW w/

lightscribe, connected as PATA bus 0 device 0/master and jumped accordingly)

will no longer read executables from inserted discs.

 

Upon inserting a disc, the drive's title under "My Computer" changes but the

icon does not update. It attempts to autorun and fails with a "The

application failed to initialize properly" error 0xC0000006. Double-clicking

it to start autorun simply does the same thing again. Exploring the drive

works -- with the exception that no custom icons are displayed. Attempting to

open or execute an .exe or .dll file fails with the above error, yet

attempting to open any data file works normally.

 

The drive is known to be good (it was used to install windows) as well as

the discs. This is an existing system, not a new build, and worked normally

hours before. I tried reinstalling the CDROM in device manager, installing

all updates available, messing with various settings, and yet it still does

the same thing.

 

Google reveals a few others have had the exact problem but they have all

either not found a solution, or it was a hardware fault (IDE cable not

connected correctly etc). I checked over the connections but like I said, it

was working prior to the reinstall and no hardware changed in that time.

 

I have no idea what would cause windows to be able to see data files but not

executable files; this makes no sense to me at all. If anyone could provide

any insight, I would be very appreciative.

[Guest Michael]

Re: Strange... CDROM not reading exe and dll files, others fine

 

Sean Schult wrote:

> Greetings folks,

>

> Usually the issues I run into can be solved with a little searching, trial

> and error, and plenty of mountain dew. This one however has me stumped -- and

> I beg the assistance of anyone who can help me get to the bottom of it.

>

> Upon a fresh reinstall of WinXP Pro on the computer in question (core 2 duo

> 2.4ghz on an Asus P5W-DH Deluxe), the CDROM (a Lite-On DVD+/-RW w/

> lightscribe, connected as PATA bus 0 device 0/master and jumped accordingly)

> will no longer read executables from inserted discs.

>

> Upon inserting a disc, the drive's title under "My Computer" changes but the

> icon does not update. It attempts to autorun and fails with a "The

> application failed to initialize properly" error 0xC0000006. Double-clicking

> it to start autorun simply does the same thing again. Exploring the drive

> works -- with the exception that no custom icons are displayed. Attempting to

> open or execute an .exe or .dll file fails with the above error, yet

> attempting to open any data file works normally.

>

> The drive is known to be good (it was used to install windows) as well as

> the discs. This is an existing system, not a new build, and worked normally

> hours before. I tried reinstalling the CDROM in device manager, installing

> all updates available, messing with various settings, and yet it still does

> the same thing.

>

> Google reveals a few others have had the exact problem but they have all

> either not found a solution, or it was a hardware fault (IDE cable not

> connected correctly etc). I checked over the connections but like I said, it

> was working prior to the reinstall and no hardware changed in that time.

>

> I have no idea what would cause windows to be able to see data files but not

> executable files; this makes no sense to me at all. If anyone could provide

> any insight, I would be very appreciative.

Group policy blocked you from running anything from removable media.

[Guest Jerryk]

Re: Strange... CDROM not reading exe and dll files, others fine

 

Sean Schult wrote:

> Greetings folks,

>

> Usually the issues I run into can be solved with a little searching, trial

> and error, and plenty of mountain dew. This one however has me stumped -- and

> I beg the assistance of anyone who can help me get to the bottom of it.

>

> Upon a fresh reinstall of WinXP Pro on the computer in question (core 2 duo

> 2.4ghz on an Asus P5W-DH Deluxe), the CDROM (a Lite-On DVD+/-RW w/

> lightscribe, connected as PATA bus 0 device 0/master and jumped accordingly)

> will no longer read executables from inserted discs.

>

> Upon inserting a disc, the drive's title under "My Computer" changes but the

> icon does not update. It attempts to autorun and fails with a "The

> application failed to initialize properly" error 0xC0000006. Double-clicking

> it to start autorun simply does the same thing again. Exploring the drive

> works -- with the exception that no custom icons are displayed. Attempting to

> open or execute an .exe or .dll file fails with the above error, yet

> attempting to open any data file works normally.

>

> The drive is known to be good (it was used to install windows) as well as

> the discs. This is an existing system, not a new build, and worked normally

> hours before. I tried reinstalling the CDROM in device manager, installing

> all updates available, messing with various settings, and yet it still does

> the same thing.

>

> Google reveals a few others have had the exact problem but they have all

> either not found a solution, or it was a hardware fault (IDE cable not

> connected correctly etc). I checked over the connections but like I said, it

> was working prior to the reinstall and no hardware changed in that time.

>

> I have no idea what would cause windows to be able to see data files but not

> executable files; this makes no sense to me at all. If anyone could provide

> any insight, I would be very appreciative.

 

ARe you logged on as Administrator? There are some security settings

that block anyone else from running certain .exe and dll files..

Just a thought.....